I was doing quite well in Malaysia... Everyone was so excited about my music, and they started accepting me as an artist.

My wish is for gay to become less of a label, and more of just one of many great colors in the collective box of humanity.

As much as people are griping about the Internet taking sales away from artists, it's been a huge promotional tool for me.

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is.

I want to continue to produce film, television, and theater, and to make the most amazing music that I've made in my life.

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.

I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

The world my children are growing up in is so much more sophisticated and exposed - emotionally, intellectually, sexually.

I just dress like... I'm an old black man. Sorry! Like I'm an old Jewish black man. I just dress like it's still the '50s.

Your love is the ultimate love that empowers all your efforts, a true love for what is indestructibly and perpetually you.

If someone said, 'What was anything you could wish for,' it would have been to have Donald Tardy in my band as my drummer.

I want everybody to be happy because, if you're happy, you are more open to other people. Don't let misery bring you down.

I have a massage when I want to relax. I love being pampered. I love island massages when you're outside in the fresh air.

I can be strong for everybody except myself. I can tell somebody, 'Hey, keep it together', but I can't take my own advice.

Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.

For me, pointing and clicking my phone is absolutely fine. People say that isn't the art of photography but I don't agree.

You can live with almost any condition if you're living within a community of people who can share a common understanding.

When you go to Africa, and you see children, they're usually barefoot, dirty and in rags, and they'd love to go to school.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

A lot of people say that my life is wasted on me because I could be a bigger asshole than I am, but I've chosen not to be.

Laughing is such a pure and natural thing I try to laugh every day. Think that's one of the most important things in life.

I'm kind of a nervous guy. I know on television I look like I'm half asleep, but inside I'm going about 100 miles an hour.

If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

If you want to make something happen that hasn't happened before , you've got to allow yourself to make a lot of mistakes.

Just keep being true to yourself, if you're passionate about something go for it. Don't sacrifice anything, just have fun.

Sometimes indifference can be so erotic. I think the people who are most dismissive of you get the most of your attention.

I just eat healthy and try not to eat late at night. And I exercise as well. That's a big change for me; I work out a lot.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

I don't think you can get everything based on who you know, but you can't get anything until you do know the right people.

I played trumpet in middle school, and then I had to get braces, so I had to stop playing trumpet and start playing drums.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

I really work hard to shape the song so that it's attractive... You don't want to give people the information in an enema.

It is part of my faith as a Muslim to try to help those who are suffering from poverty or economic or political injustice.

It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

When you do anything for eight or nine years, you start getting a little comfortable; you start taking things for granted.

Being voted the world's sexiest vegetarian is about as cool as it gets. It's not quite as cool as Brad Pitt, but it'll do.

Music left my life for a while, to be honest. It wasn't that I didn't like it, but you know, I'm not really a solo player.

I'm in a crazy business. The music industry is really tough, and I fight for my life. I just want to make everybody happy.

When I was 13, I remember crying on my mum's shoulder when my first girlfriend dumped me via MSN Messenger. That was cold.

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

One sweet world Around this star is spinning One sweet world And in her breath I'm swimming And here we will rest in peace

I've always been obsessed by visual art as I have been by music personally, but that doesn't mean anything professionally.

Searching for a perfect love is not easy to find,but having the love of our God is more perfect than what you have found".

I really like the European carols, and I like that captivating sound that they have that isn't usually in Christmas songs.

Personally, I always just want people to enjoy themselves and experience something that they wouldn't normally experience.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself - let's put it that way.

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