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I think if my father was a truck driver, I would have wanted to share the beauty that was there. He just happens to be Johnny Cash.
I think all of our concerts, really, as parties. It's a performance for sure. It's not a recital. It's a celebration of that music.
You're going to get flak if you tell the wrong joke, but it's still the wrong joke. Give the wrong speech, you take it on the chin.
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.
The right scent can make you feel a little more stylish, but it should never eclipse who you are. It should complement who you are.
I was a real mummy's girl - still am. And as for my father, well, I have an Oedipus complex I'm still working out. I love that man!
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.
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
Synthesizers were looked at as stealing the soul of music, but then there were these new bands who used it to contradict that idea.
I've been told to wear different things, to look different, to lose weight, to look sexier, to wear more hair, to wear more makeup.
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.
I really know how to sing and create and put things together that entertain... be it controversially or be it from music or acting.
I didn't expect such a huge reaction, but I knew I was doing something different to everything else that was happening at the time.
There are a lot of times when people are diplomatic about things, and I'm not that type. I'm not afraid to say exactly what I mean.
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.
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 wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.
In Scotland, Dad grew courgettes which were the size of my leg. I'd step into the garden and it was like 'The Day of the Triffids.'
All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.
Plantation gospel music was the stuff I fell in love with when I was a kid - these beautiful melodies and these hard, hard stories.
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.
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.
Maybe I just look at things as a humanist: I like looking at people in a realistic way more than looking at them in a positive way.
I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.
I listen to other people's stuff and, more and more, you realise how much is layered and how many different guitar parts there are.
I hate the idea of people thinking that I'm just a little girl who goes into studios with pop producers, and they work their magic.
When I was thirty, and a long time after that, I felt like I had to leave home to do what I had to do. Now, it's just the opposite.
When I write a song, I get the melody right first, and then hopefully I can back it up with a lyric that has to respect the melody.
There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I've no interest in listening to them.
I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable, which I think is sort of clear.
The operation left me very emotional. I cry a lot anyway. I've always been the type to feel hurt easily, but now I hit rock bottom.
Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.
I don't ever think of myself as a dark person or a ruined person in any way. I just feel happy to be alive, and to be able to love.
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.
'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.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
Daddy was real gentle with kids. That's why I expected so much out of marriage, figuring that all men should be steady and pleasant.
My mum used to work in New York in Spike Lee's shop, she did the outfits for the video for P.M. Dawn's "Set Adrift on Memory Bliss".
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love and a long break from each other
I've been kind of toying around with the bi thing in my head. I wouldn't ever give myself the label 'bisexual,' but bi-curious? Yea.
Do I really have moves like Jagger? F**king A, no, I don’t. But I was going to tell everybody that I did and hoped they believed me.
I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.
I like the guitar-driven music of Nirvana at its peak. At that point, I thought there was a lot of really exciting music coming out.
When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.
I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much.
My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.
I was gutted to leave my boyfriend at home when I started my tour, but taking my pillow was like taking a little bit of him with me.
I never advocate that you should be lonely, or come to my shows and bring me your razor blade to show me that you don't cut anymore.