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Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
I hate it when people say that they don't like 'MMMBop.' Everyone likes 'MMMBop.' Whether they like it or not, the song rocks.
My only concern about art collaborations is that I never thought of myself as an Artist. My tax forms say Musician/Songwriter.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
I love to write honest songs that name real people, then get up onstage and live out those emotions in front of 15,000 people.
I don't like to feel like I'm some fragile package that has to be shipped by high-priority mail and handled with white gloves.
Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.
The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.
Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.
Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.
Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.
Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone
People are in your life for a reason, others are there for a season and it's important to realize when those seasons are over.
When you're in shape, you don't have to walk up to somebody and say, 'Yo, I love myself.' You look like you care for yourself.
I think the worst thing you can do is take an arrogant approach and not give people enough content to wrap their heads around.
From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road
I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.
I felt kind of bored at the prospect of writing some more of my own songs because I really wasn't saying what I wanted to say.
I've always been the high harmony singer. It's never my job to know the verses! But I know the chorus of every song ever made.
I lay my head on the railroad track, waitin' on the Double E. But the train don't run by here no more, poor, poor, pitiful me.
You're making something that won't be what it is until some unknown date in the future. All aspects of the personal disappear.
When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.
Nowadays, independence is so promoted, it would be crazy for me to say I'd want a traditional woman who wants to stay at home.
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.
My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.
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.
To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.
You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can.
I have a lot to be grateful to L.A. for, but I overstayed my welcome by 28 years. I was only meant to be there for six months.
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.
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 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.
I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
It's so bizarre, being in the rolling water, but I like how insignificant it makes me feel, that's a good head space to be in.
Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
Back in your twenties you're discovering your boundaries in life, whether it's with relationships or friendships and partying.
Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
I was a huge 'Breaking Bad' fan. I just loved the whole thing. Always interesting, always urgent. The stakes were always high.
When I got sober, I really felt like there was something that was missing from my life, Buddhism is something that I practice.
I like Miami in the winter: there's no humidity, no bugs, no mosquitoes. You go out and wear your jacket, and you're all good!
Looking back on my career, some of the hardest times - eight people at a show, 12 people on a bus - were some of the most fun.
I think my parents did want me to go to university just in case, but neither my mum or dad went to uni, so they couldn't talk.
I get superstitious. I always have to have some form of potato, either chips or mashed potato or roast potatoes on a show day.
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.
Your physicality is this great thing, but it is also the thing that makes you clumsy and limits you in the world, so to speak.
The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.
People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
We all feel love, and that might sound kind of corny, but I really feel that's what joins musicians together around the world.