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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.
The honest-to-goodness answer is that Twitter tells me everything, and I have calluses on my fingers from all the mouse-clicking.
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.
There were so many weird shows when we were younger. 'Clangers.' 'Button Moon.' 'The Moomins.' All very weird, but very cool too.
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.
I think that if you hear music young, whatever music you hear influences you. I'm white, but I've been influenced by black music.
Well, if you've got a one-in-a-million girl don't let her get away; cause the next one-in-a-million girl is a million girls away.
In a perfect world, I would never do any interviews, and probably there would be one photo out there of me, and that would be it.
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.
Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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.
My church has a health and fitness ministry to encourage our members to take care of spiritually and physically; how could I not?
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.
Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
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.
When you're young and creative, you don't know how to channel all that creative energy, so sometimes it goes to the wrong places.
Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling.
My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
Being a grandmother is one of the least strange things in my life. It makes more sense than a lot of things... like photo shoots!
Later in life, suddenly, if you're an outsider, it's something to be celebrated, I think, rather than getting on people's nerves.
When you go on tour and see everyone, you're like, "Oh my god. This is actually real life." That inspires me to write more songs.
I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.
My dad is a guitar player with huge vinyl record collection. I loved listening to his albums, especially Cream and The Yardbirds.