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My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up.
The combination of cheaper and more widespread broadband and increased mobile usage is turning us all into independent viewers.
It's the need for change that drives us to join forces with our brothers and sisters all around the world - but change is slow.
I like Kelly Rowland, I think that she's great. It's hard to come out of the group of Destiny's Child and still kick some butt.
John Mayer would be my ultimate collaboration because he's just the man. He has basically captured all I believe in with music.
When I got dropped, no one really wanted to work with me... I felt like my career was over and I didn't really know what to do.
Why don't the Grammys matter? Because it feels rigged and cheap - like a popularity contest that the insiders club has decided.
In my early shows, I wanted to put myself through a new childhood, disintegrating my whole identity to let the real one emerge.
I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified.
I someday hope to find the time and coin to invest more of my creative energy towards the visual media side of releasing music.
I think what makes me stand out from the rest is my melodic style combined with my voice, which has a distinct character to it.
My coming of age was in the '70s. A lot of people look back on it as a grim decade, but I look back on it as a liberating time.
I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
I think that kids need to be guided; they need to be disciplined, but in a way that's constructive, so that's what I try to do.
I feel like, as a female, I am maybe hyper-sensitive to feeling pushed into a corner or somebody taking a song a different way.
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.
I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.
I come from a duo, actually, quite literally. My parents are Linda and Eddie, and they had an act in Vegas called 'Love's Way.'
I'd rather they call me a national treasure than a national waste of time. And yes, it does feel good, but I've had to earn it.
Fashion is an extension of expressing who you are. I love to entertain and put on a show. And that's definitely a part of that.
I love all my albums... I use the metaphor they're like my children: some do better than others, but you love them all equally.
My inspiration for songs is just everyday life. I just write down words about things that have happened to me, people I've met.
I don't like permanency. I just like to slip and slide, and in identity, I think that's a very feminine artist's point of view.
I'm not just a singer of funny songs; I am basically, first and foremost, a musician. I'm always recording all styles of music.
I always bring divining rods when I'm on tour because you can change energy streams by moving furniture around your hotel room.
You can't keep doing the same things when you get married and have a family. You have to slow down. You have to be responsible.
Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.
I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel fan.
I run in the West Side highway. I've gotten recognized, but unless you're a runner, you really can't do nothing but just point.
Hearing other peoples' interpretations of your lyrics, to me, is just a total kick in the pants. Half the time, they're better.
When you make a heavy record, there should be a point where you say you don't want to share it, but then maybe you come around.
I've been traveling in Guatemala in the rainforest, and here all these houses are made of sticks. It seems so easy to make one.
In the course of my career, which has been an incredible rollercoaster ride, I look at the journey and think it's been immense.
I couldn't be touring unless my husband was on the road with me, taking care of our son while I'm onstage and doing interviews.
We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
When I'm writing with John Leventhal, the music that he's written mostly comes first. And I'll write the lyrics and the melody.
I was pretty young, but because of that first record, 'Cole Espanol,' we took our first trip - well, my first trip - to Mexico.
Thirty minutes onstage for me is literally a full day's work. So I make sure I eat right and I make sure I keep my energy high.
There's something about being out here on the road that the hours aren't anything like what you're used to when you're at home.
I am a communicator; that seems to be my natural place. And I'll always be passionate about the world, because it's so bonkers.
I do pay performance royalties on others' songs I perform live, but I'm not recording these songs and putting them up for sale.
Fashion changes. Everyone in fashion changes. I think it's important to change it up and reinvent yourself every now and again.
My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.
If you think marriage is gonna be easy, don't do it because when there are children involved, you screw up the rest of society.
When I get back to Derry I always enjoy a good fry-up that my mum makes. That's my big weakness. I also eat too much chocolate.
Sometimes I think our problems are made worse by the kind of business we're in. Playing these road shows is a weird experience.
In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Don’t be sad by what you see It’s true life has it’s miseries But one thing’s always worked for me Worry ends when faith begins.
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.