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Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with "Idol," it has got me past so much of that.
Yeah... I was a singer as a kid. I had a lot of stage fright, and what's happened with 'Idol,' it has got me past so much of that.
We didn't know it was going to be a career - it was just a lot of fun. We were known as the bimbo band and never expected to last.
My favorite drugstore product is Clean and Clear makeup removing cleanser. It gets the makeup off in one wash - not three or four.
I lived in L.A. for a year when I was four - my dad was doing a sabbatical at UCLA - so it always remained quite a familiar place.
It's more about, when I found someone that made me feel really happy, that was so different to the way I'd felt before in my life.
I think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.
God said, All right, I'm gonna show you. I made you what you are. God takes care of me. I'm just the one who delivers the message.
There's no great guitarist that doesn't sit down and listen to Chet Atkins and Eddie Van Halen, and all these other great players.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.
I'm more of a tomboy than anything and then you see your name on these Top 50 Most Beautiful People lists and you're like, 'What?'
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it.
My mother didn't baby me, and I think that helped me out thus far to keep my drive and my hunger. I don't take 'no' for an answer.
I miss New York. I still love how people talk to you on the street - just assault you and tell you what they think of your jacket.
As an artist myself, I know what it's like to put your heart and soul into something. You can feel the presence of another person.
The idea of service to humanity, putting yourself in situations where people have much less than you do, puts life in perspective.
My mother died when I was five, and all I did was sit and cry. I cried and cried and cried all day, until the neighbors went away.
It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
I love 40's-60's fashion because it suits the type of figure that I have the most, so that's what I always go for. I won't change!
When I was young, a gatefold album by 'Pink Floyd' or 'Led Zeppelin' was something to get excited about, something you longed for.
You can love someone with all your heart for all the right reasons, and in a moment they can choose to walk away. love 'em anyway.
When I was 5 years old, I got my first record. It was 'Flatt & Scruggs' Greatest Hits.' The second was 'The Fabulous Johnny Cash.'
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
You can hate me. You can go out there and say anything you want about me, But you will love me later because I told you the truth.
The greatest motivation to share the gospel w/ someone today & everyday: Another voice around the throne. A louder song for Jesus.
Growing up in the Northwest, I did play in an all-girl band. I snuck into clubs. No one ever questioned or thought twice about it.
Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself.
People often ask me how I developed my vocal sound, and the answer usually disappoints them: Its just the way I sound when I sing.
I appreciate all my fans, on all occasions, everyday of my life. Its your presence & your loyalty that has given me great strength
All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
"Loving You is Easy Cause You're Beautiful" Hers was a gift of love, a miracle of life, For all the world to see and hear forever.
Better a loving single-parent family than a 'conventional' family where the parents hate each other and the father is a demagogue.
Whether the Virgin Mary existed, I don't know. But the human need for her to appear in tortilla, that's what inspires my interest.
Whenever I've had success, I never learn from it. Success usually breeds a degree of hubris. When you fail, that's when you learn.
Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
When I'm out and people ask me what I do for a living, the worst thing you can say is, 'I'm a singer.' It opens up a can of worms.
Your father leaving your family, that's your bedrock for all your future relationships and that's your security when you're a kid.
I was pretty bad. When I first was diagnosed with kidney failure, my function - the function of my kidney was less than 8 percent.
It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
What's really important? That I'm an individual, I guess. I am an individual - a strong one, too. I'm Natalie Cole. I gotta be me.
I can't put on weight, even though I eat so much and I'm not saying that in a good way because I love curves and I love carbs too.
There is so much that happens in the entertainment life, especially when you've been working from such a young age such as myself.
My mum came from nothing and didn't have many opportunities in her youth, and she blames a lot of her social inadequacies on that.
Racism is one of the worst forms of torture because it's directed at something you never asked for and something you can't change.