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I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.
I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
I'm talking about noise rock. I don't think that noise rock element belongs in jazz. It's not for me anyway; it just doesn't fit.
I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
I have gone from being a 21-year-old with wide eyes to a 24-year-old woman. With success comes a lot of responsibility and power.
I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.
I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?
Therapy really did prepare me to become an empathic songwriter. As far as advice goes, it's a matter of self understanding first.
Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.
If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.
All I can promise myself and everyone else is that this record is a snapshot of thisperiod in my life. It will be that by default.
When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.
At its best, a live show is completely transcendent. The image I get is breaking through glass or shooting out into the free zone.
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
Compassion can change a lot of things, including the world. Young people especially need to know that, because they're the future.
I came from a town of about 2,000 people with one stop light, and I was told that nothing I ever wanted to do, I would succeed in.
Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours - and, if you're really lucky, full days - where everything feels just right.
Don't let anyone define you from what you live through and everything that they think you stand for. Just be proud of who you are.
Typically, the theme of my albums, if there is a theme, is, 'How does it feel?' And that always leads to love songs. It just does.
I don't take myself as seriously as some people think, and I'd hate anyone to think I was preaching. That's the last thing I want.
Women's issues have always been a part of my life. My goal is to bring the word 'feminism' back into the zeitgeist and reframe it.
I left the entertainment industry part of my life behind in 1983, when we decided not to work with major record companies anymore.
Everyone is made differently and that's what makes us beautiful and unique. I want girls to look in the mirror and feel confident.
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Some of our jokes we made up on the fly. I love Lecrae; we have been friends for a while and he is just one of my favorite people.
Basically, there's not a single circumstance, I pray, that can derail me from what Christ is to me and who I am because of Christ.
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.
I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.
I'm naturally a mousy blonde, so I dye my hair, and my eyebrows would disappear if I didn't get through at least a pencil a month.
I was born on a pig farm in Norfolk. We grew up in the city called Norwich in Norfolk, then I moved to London when I was thirteen.
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
I like people to just bring it to the table and feel the moment. And that's why I've never done a session where I don't sing live.
I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.
Once upon a time, I could sing three hours. Now, when you see me say 'I'm done,' I'm done; ain't nothing left till the next night.
I knew that I was different when I was six years old, but it wasn't until I got to about 10 or 11 that I realised I was a gay man.
If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal.
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.
I'm not sure I'll ever be famous by anyone's definition. I can only hope to be allowed by the audience to continue my life's work.
He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done.
I used the physical scar of my breast cancer operation, the scar that I have across my chest as a metaphor for all kinds of scars.
I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.
We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.
Adam Ezra writes with the heart of a troubadour and sings like a rock star. He is truely a fresh voice in singer/songwriter scene.
In the '90s, there was always this continuous pitting of women against each other in the media, trying to make them battle it out.
I'm not a great dancer. I'm a great advertisement for freedom of expression. I don't care what you think. I'm having a great time.
I think all the business stuff - the promotion, the hype, the high-power lunches, and the permanently injected smiles - is boring.