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Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.
I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.
I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.
Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.
It scares me to speak my mind, it might sound self-absorbed, I don't say half of what I think, I wonder what I'm thinking for
With Lady Antebellum, there's always pressure. It's hard for commerce not to rear its ugly head when you're making decisions.
I think true romance is dry schizophrenic... but life would be so boring without true love, so I guess you just roll with it.
I'm able to reach a wider audience, an older audience. I can gladly say that I'm definitely not a bubblegum princess anymore.
There are lots and lots of different films that I love, and watching different characters and how different people play them.
Rihanna's voice is just delicious for your ear. Sinatra had the same thing; anything he sang sounded pleasing to most people.
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday tomorrow, go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
If you want to put out a song that you wrote yesterday, tomorrow go on Twitter, type in a new URL, and give it to the people!
'Mirage' was an attempt to get back into the flow that 'Rumours' had. But we missed a vital ingredient. That was the passion.
For Stevie, the words are of prime importance; the song moves around the words, rather than the words moving around the song.
Death metal has now become exclusively about being evil, Satanic and playing full speed ahead. It's not what I'm into at all.
I appreciate the idea of allowing people to have their own private walk with God. To me, God is about love, not condemnation.
Love is certain, love is kind, love is yours and love is mine. But it isn't something that we find, its something that we do.
I really idolize everything my sisters do,so I went into singing contests and won also. That's how I really got into singing.
Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
I like the Alice in Wonderland sculpture in Central Park. I love how it's been rained on forever and looks worn down by time.
When you start to ascertain a physique, you run that thing where you don't want to lose it. It catches you; it's like a hook.
If you're in a good relationship, you should be able to say to your girlfriend, 'That girl walking down the street is great.'
When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.
Like I say, it depends on how you do rock-'n'-roll. If you do it right then I think people will appreciate it for what it is.
While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until I was going to be a star.
The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
It's a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn't send it.
I think Depeche Mode music somehow appeals to the oddball, to the person who is looking for something a little bit different.
I always like to have an atlas just so that I can find things out. It's always good to have an almanac; those sort of things.
I was damn lucky to choose this profession. I had no idea when I started out that I was really an illusionist and a magician.
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.
I meditate.' That's like saying 'I eat.' Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.
Grizzly Bear's 'Knife' is one of the best videos of all time - everything Encyclopedia Pictura has done is really incredible.
My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.
You gotta keep trying to find your niche and trying to fit into whatever slot that's left for you or to make one of your own.
I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we're much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
I'm the female Jay-Z. I never compared myself to other women artists. I compared myself with the best, and the best is Jay-Z.
I feel like it's not a bad average for every album I've got in the United States to be nominated for something off the album.
If you think about where I'm from, I'm not supposed to be singing in the first place. I'm not supposed to be alive right now.
The Grammy snuck up on me. I was on tour. It just hit me. I skipped down the street in Vienna. I kept saying, 'I won. I won.'
I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.
A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.
The biggest way to say, philosophically, you'll never be part of a war is to look completely the opposite of anyone in a war.
For me, I feel like if a woman doesn't find me attractive 'cause I'm taking care of myself, then that's not the woman I want.
I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.
We kiss and hug our kids a lot! And even now when our son lives 3,000 miles away, we talk every day, sometimes several times.