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I believe in horoscopes. I was born under the sign of the Ram, which means I'm headstrong, don't like people telling me what to do.
You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.
Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.
I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs.
What else is there for me to conquer? Hopefully my ego. How will I know when I've succeeded? When I stop caring what anyone thinks.
George [Michael], I want your sex, so be my father figure and I will have faith if we have to live hand-to-mouth. The diva himself.
I'm really kind of boring - I'd rather go to bed early and get up early because I really value my time off, my time away from work.
Don't sing a song you can't carry off, like some 16-year-old kid singing 'My Way'. That song's not for you. You haven't lived that.
I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything.'
I felt connected with Madonna from a very young age. I think I share a lot of qualities from her personality. I really respect her.
Every show, every audience is different, and I just love leaving the venue feeling like we all know each other a little bit better.
I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.
By the time I was a teenager, when I went outside the house, it was about hip-hop all the time. Nothing but hip-hop, block parties.
I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.
The minute you feel like you've completed something you lose that momentum. I've learned how to avoid that. That's the bottom line.
You don't have to be afraid, even death itself does not have power. In Christ, everything is becoming new, everything is different.
Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.
Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.
I live in New York and I love hanging out in gay clubs, and a lot of my friends are gay. But, for better or for worse, I'm not gay.
Your real identity is your spiritual being. And every problem, if you're a spiritual being, every problem has a spiritual solution.
My mum said I told her I wanted to be a hairdresser during the week and a star on the weekend and that was when I was really young.
Art and life go together. I have to have a life filled with experiences to make art, and I have to have art around me to live well.
I like writing songs all females can relate to - songs about when you're a chick and you get your heart broken and you go shopping.
I don't think I'm delusional, but I'm definitely a dreamer; I definitely want to see the best in things and I believe in what I do.
'Heart on Fire' didn't do as well as the last record in most territories, but South Africa is one of the places it did really well.
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.
Trust is everything between two artists, or between subject and artist. You have to have trust or nothing good will come out of it.
I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.
Back when I first started with Scandal, I felt like I had to carry a lot of the weight because it was up to me to sell those songs.
The USA should invade the USA and win the hearts and minds of the population by building roads, bridges and putting locals to work.
There weren't any white people in this country who didn't know who Gladys Knight was. Or the Pips were, as far as that's concerned.
I used to love the Beatles and the Stones and I'd always want to hang out with them, even though they were about seven years older.
I'm not mainstream at all. I can make mainstream music and I make music for mainstream artists, but me, myself, I'm not mainstream.
I try not to repeat myself. It's the hardest thing in the world to do -- there are only so many notes one human being can master. .
There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.
Church was a requirement, there was no choice in the matter, so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
You save money so your kids can go to college - no matter what they are or who they are. They're your kids; you gotta support them.
There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.'
I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
No matter what you achieve in life, you're always wondering, 'Is there something I should be doing? Is there something I'm missing?
I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.
A memoir is a book about some particular thread or theme or moment in a person's life, whereas an autobiography is the entire life.
The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind.
Daphne Guinness was amazingly comfortable in her skin, and she has an amazing collection in fashion that I wish I could just touch.