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I don't like to be told what to do at all. That's unfortunate because a lot of people come up with good ideas and can direct you.
The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing.
You can't plan to reach another person on a deep level, it just happens. So those are the moments that I think I really live for.
And when somebody knows you well, well there's no comfort like that. And when somebody needs you, well there's no drug like that.
My first instrument was an accordion. Growing up in Louisiana, my grandmother gave me an accordion because of our Cajun heritage.
As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
I know that's blasphemous when you are from Detroit, but I was never a fan of Motown stuff. I don't care for the production much.
I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?
I told you that I love you, I was only telling a lie. I'll be long gone come the crack of dawn and I believe the word is goodbye.
The studio and road both have their charms. The studio allows me to be a mad scientist and the tour lets me feel like James Bond.
I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.
Amazingly, I've been sort of an anomaly in the music industry. I feel like I've been able to exist as kind of a throwback artist.
I just think fashion is about enjoying yourself and being comfortable in your skin and allowing you to be you - all the way live.
I'm even afraid to lay down with you at night, because when you go to bed at night, mean woman, you got an ice pick in your hand.
London is a good fashion city. They're a little more daring. There's the element of the aristocracy, which is always interesting.
I always knew the Sixties wasn't a revolution. It really was just a bunch of university students with wealthy parents having fun.
With the style of music that I do, I don't think it's at the top of their agenda to push me into doing any compromising material.
There's this idea that when you turn 40, you automatically go to adult contemporary heaven, but I want to try and challenge that.
As a new artist there's always outside influences trying to tell you how to make a song better for radio and how to do your hair.
I'm an animal love, but I don't have the smarts to be a vet, or the heart to have been a vet cause I cry over any wounded animal.
As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.
I've never been good at rock'n'roll songs, anyway; either I'm blessed or I'm cursed, but whatever I write comes out sounding old.
Just because you have political beliefs or feminist beliefs, you don't have to like everybody, you don't have to like everything.
Motherhood puts everything into perspective, changes the way you look at life, and your perspective of what's actually important.
Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
I am usually always singing about the same god damn person so I will love him forever but you know, it's all good. It's all good!
I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me.
No one thought I would be successful. Everyone thought I would fail. You have no idea how much courage it took for me to do this.
Incidentally, think about the ramifications of storing data on light waves that can be stopped and started at the speed of light.
I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.
My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.
I'm not eager to jump into marriage again. I'm in the corner right now, wearing my dunce cap. That area is obviously a nightmare.
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you.
I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.
I worked for everything that I got and I worked long and hard before I got to this point so when I got it I thought I deserve it.
Filmmaking is such a collaboration. At a certain point, I suppose you do have to let go and trust the people you're working with.
Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.
A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.
There is no lapse in His character or inconsistency in His nature. Our God is everything he says He is… for now and all eternity.
I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.
If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.
The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.
Insult me all you want. Judge me as much as you want. Say what you think, everything you want. But one thing. Dont touch my fans.
It doesn't matter what blood or race or creed or color. Love is love and it breaks all boundaries and you just see it right away.
Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person.