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I think being a parent is knowing how to love. Sometimes love is discipline, sometimes it's humor, sometimes it's listening.
In my business you cant trust anyone because you dont know whos your friend. Becoming successful means you become a prisoner
Movies were, to me, like a way out. It was an escape valve. I remember having my parents drop me off at movies all the time.
David Lynch is my friend, and I love his movies and his art and his music. Few things make me happier than working with him.
Growing up in Connecticut, all the Colonial houses looked alike. In Los Angeles, the diversity is so extreme, it's baffling.
When I dj at big venues I try to play tracks that I would want to hear if I were e'd up in a field with 50,000 other people.
I’ve never seen the need to choose one type of music at the exclusion of another. That would feel kind of sad and arbitrary.
I love the Middle East and have been lucky enough to visit a few of the countries like Egypt, Lebanon, Jordon and the U.A.E.
I have a big family full of massive personalities so i just sit there most of the time great fun to listen to their stories.
Some days I am fine but us mums are not robots, we are not perfect, we have to give ourselves a break and a pat on the back.
I'm a registered, vetted gun owner, but that's because I live way out in the country, like way out in the middle of nowhere.
In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?
I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!
Fame is a lot of pressure, especially when you're responsible for your entire family. Financially, emotionally - everything.
It may sound funny, but I got a thrill when I was pulled into a crowd once. It was like 'How am I going to get out of this?!
My faith plays a big part in who I am: a Christian guy playing pop-rock music. I'm in a pop-rock band, not a Christian band.
My first instrument is piano, I play some piano and guitar. So my solo music is more like real singer/songwriter type stuff.
When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
I think it is so great when artists use their voice to help other people and it is really great to be a part of the benefit.
It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'
I was so unhealthy as a child, and at least three or four times my parents were told to get ready, that I would not make it.
Once I'd become a songwriter, it just stays with you. You always want to write more songs because it's such a great feeling.
When everyone recognizes Jehovah's name, then everyone will be happy because everyone will know what to do and how to do it.
I pushed the envelope as far as it needed to be pushed, and now it's on the floor, and people seem to want it to stay there.
Unexpectedly, I'm here now, so I need to let all the U.S. marketers know that Asians are not different. We are all the same.
I like Pirate's Booty. Prunes and olives, too. I love hummus. I can eat that until I die. I tend to eat mostly organic food.
Many times during auditions, I was told that I couldn't carry a note with a bucket, and that I sure couldn't play the piano.
Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
It's success, not fame, that is quite addictive. I'm addicted to a lot of things and, as it happens, success is one of them.
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.
I had me jaw broken, and so my chin stuck way out. That's how I became tough - I learned to pick up anything and fight back.
I just wouldn't enjoy standing there like a paper doll, having someone else stick paper dresses on me. That would be no fun.
At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.
I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.
I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.
What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
It always disappoints me when I go to a concert and they don't play my favorite song, or at least one of their biggest hits.
My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
I believe my songs are strong enough to stand on their own - even way back then when they were recorded badly and minimally.
My mom is a history teacher, so we'd go on all these historic trips as kids around Halloween, because it was kind of creepy.
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
My name, Solange, means 'Angel of the sun,' and I'm completely enamored of my African history. The culture is so expressive.
In my experience, as a young black artist, you have to fulfill an archetype, or be a token - and I was unwilling to do that.
I have a father who was the first black student at his junior high and high school and had to do a lot to get to that point.
I usually enter the studio with a mix of songs that I've been listening to that are relevant to the sound I want to achieve.
Well, there are certainly original things to say. But I'm not sure that a pop song is the appropriate format to say them in.
I think there is such a valid concept as "serious music," meaning that if you don't take it seriously, you don't get it all.
Even with most finite planning you never know what the final result will reveal itself to be until it's staring back at you.