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Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
I have the power of choice in every moment. Where will I place my attention? What do I hold sacred? Whom can I love right now?
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
That's why I named my album 'The Life,' because it's appreciating life and not taking it for granted and living it day by day.
It's crucial with today's challenges that our children feel they have a source of information they can trust in their parents.
My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.
Every day be thankful for the nights that turn into mornings, friends that turn into family and dreams that turn into reality.
My mom and dad met at Anaheim High School. After they got married, all they wanted to do was have four children, and they did.
All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.
In any city or town, you can find a good, rocking Italian place. The most unhealthy thing on the menu? I'll have two of those!
Love is the answer At least for most of the questions in my heart Why are we here and where do we go And how come it's so hard
And while the future's there for anyone to change, still you know it's seems, It would be easier sometimes to change the past.
I try to read everything that I can about myself because Saddam Hussein didn't read his reviews and he thought he was winning!
I don't think I picked up the guitar in the first place as a way of getting women. There are probably better ways of doing it.
Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.
I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.
It's amazing when you're playing to a crowd who barely understands English but they're singing parts of your song back to you.
I aim to write songs in a way that you don't have to have gone to Ghana to relate to it, you really just have to have a heart.
I love the sound of the wind in the trees and the song of the birds and the shuffle in the leaves of my many woodland friends.
In terms of the way things went for me, I'm a firm believer that experience is what makes you. But I'm not saying it was easy.
What I've found is that a lot of people in the media industry tend to use Macs because they're so good for graphics and music.
My mother never let on that anything was wrong. She kept her chin up and acted as if everything were just fine. So we did too.
I grew up on Loretta Lynn and Dusty Springfield. I remember lying about it; it wasn't cool to listen to country when I was 12.
Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.
We get home to Brisbane every couple of months or weeks. But we have often flown home for just two days as we get so homesick.
I spoke to a UFO researcher about an experience that I had. It was very strange and trust me, you don't want to hear about it.
There's certain types of music where the artist sells the song - where it doesn't really matter what's going on with the song.
As songwriters, we can go in and write for other artists in a time where you aren't necessarily feeling inspired for yourself.
I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.
Some people say I'm obnoxious and lazy, that I'm uneducated, that my opinion means nothing, but I know I'm a real good dancer.
You can fool some of the people part of the time in a rock and roll song, fifty million Elvis Presley fans can't be all wrong.
I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.
People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.
Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.
Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.
We'll have our fill of tears, our share of sighs. My only prayer is that you'll realize you'll always be beautiful in my eyes.
I felt like I got more comfortable on "Idol" when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
I felt like I got more comfortable on 'Idol' when I just started being myself and not trying to be what I thought I had to be.
In some ways, when you re-envision a song like that ["Never Be Mine"], there's a completely different energy to it each night.
What I've picked up from working with the women in the Gori choir is that they don't have egos. All that matters is the music.
If this is what you love and music is your passion, it's always ways to get through things and find ways to get around things.
Being with my family is very important to me, and touring is very important to me, too, because it's who I am. It's what I do.
As a black artist in America, you know, it is so segregated as far as the radio goes and how they position music on the radio.
We were all friends who formed a band. We weren't auditioned or put together by a record label, management company or TV show.
I felt that with In A Perfect World I was still kind of finding myself - not just as a musician, but also in love and in life.
Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
Somebody sent me their tooth, which I now wear as an earring. It's a molar, I think. I love it when people send me body parts.
The most inspiring thing as an artist is when someone says, 'I believe in you'; sometimes that works even better than Grammys.
I didn't find fame particularly difficult, partly because I'm proud to be able to say I'm the most unrecognisable face in pop.