Bad girls are a little more aggressive at times than other girls, so they get what they want and sometimes they take what they want.

I think the love of your family, Black love, is really embracing your family and doing everything you can to make sure they're safe.

You've got to stay current and up with the competition. The main thing, though, is finding the greatest songs you can possibly find.

We all love being outdoors. Grandma was in her garden or fishing; Mama loves to fish and I love to be outside. We all love the Lord.

We have two older brothers and two younger sisters; Sam and I are in the middle, and I've always felt protective and closest to him.

I don't think it is pressure but I am aware sometimes, especially on this new album, that people were going to really pay attention.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

I think I've always been fine on stage - though I get nervous beforehand. But once I'm on stage, all of that goes out of the window.

Streetwear for me is what I was raised wearing in London, and my style influences growing up were always people who wore streetwear.

You've gotta learn to love yourself and live your own life. Then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out.

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

I did the rock 'n roll-pop cliche of getting burnt out. I'm not the first person that happened to, and I'm sure I won't be the last.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

I am passionate about football. My support for Celtic FC has got me through some hard times in my life. I still play regularly, too.

Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.

When I begin working on a production, I don't really think about my previous album or albums. I try to have a real creative process.

It's like — I don't know, sometimes it's like chasing a pretty girl on the beach. And things I never thought I could do... I can do.

I live in Los Angeles, which is the second most polluted city in the world, and I wake up in the morning to dirt all over my window.

All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.

Making a record's really hard. You deal with the money stuff - you never have the budget you need. You're working with so many egos.

It's really hard juggling, trying to carve out a time to have a family and be a mom and have a career, especially a creative career.

The struggle is to stay present enough when you're taking your next step forward that you're really making your most honest choices.

I'm a social person, and I'm used to working as a band member. I like that. I like being a part of a family onstage and on the road.

Women should feel happy with their bodies and not live with the stigma that comes from not looking like models in fashion magazines.

My goal is to appeal to as many people as I can. I'm not looking to leave country, but I do want to have more international success.

Change doesn't happen often, but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

True friends are never forgotten, they live within our hearts and souls.... forever , and always , dancing on our stage of memories.

When you go on tour, you get so pumped up to make more music, learn more about yourself, and grow more musically. It always happens.

Just going through a marriage and a divorce - which I essentially did by 21 - will give you an insane amount of perspective on life.

I've been wanting to have a child since Dashiell was 1, but I was working too much, and there was a lot going on in my relationship.

No matter what others say or do, even if the wicked succeed, do not be troubled: commit everything to God and put your trust in him.

I don't see the big picture. I don't have a clue. But I know God does. I'm going to declare that, even if I don't feel it right now.

I ran into Axl [Rose] at a club some year ago and told him he's crazy, we all miss them, and he needs to get the band back together.

I'm sure, ever since I was really young, that happiness is not a bottle of champagne and a girl and a limousine and a swimming pool.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me.

What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

I worry about a lot of things, but I don’t worry about achievements. I worry primarily about whether there are nightclubs in Heaven.

How could an Angel break my heart? Why didn't he catch my falling star? I wish I didn't wish so hard. Maybe I wished our love apart.

My main inspirations are the people around me, heartbreaks, frustration and everything that makes you feel stronger than you should.

We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.

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.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.

Into the Music was about the first album where I felt, 'I'm starting here'...the Wavelength thing, I didn't really feel that was me.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

Sometimes when you're writing a song and that song comes into your head, it definitely comes from somewhere, like a real experience.

Every girl has something beautiful in her soul. It doesn't matter if she's fat or thin. That has nothing to do with her personality.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

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