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It's important that I make a difference in some way. It's not necessarily how I make a difference, but I want to make sure that I do.
I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.
I'm not the most technically savvy person in the world. Like, I'm not good at troubleshooting when stuff happens to my digital music.
Rock and roll seems to have had a mellowing in the business where it got harder to sell individual records and make money doing that.
Being a young black man, observing and sensing the need for race equality and women's rights, I wrote about what was important to me.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Just knowing that the world is round Here I'm dancing on the ground Am I right side up or upside down? Is this real or am I dreaming?
I still see myself as the kid who plays accordion and tries to keep people happy for 45 minutes. And there's nothing wrong with that.
The contracts for 'Idol' are definitely very intimidating at first. There's lots of fine, fine details that you have to read through.
I hope to die right in the middle of a song and right on the stage doing what I love to do. I hope to be about 120 when that happens.
I'm nowhere with country music. I don't hear much of it, so I shouldn't venture an opinion, but when it finds me, it seems formulaic.
I started my entire journey as an indie artist. Ownership has its benefits and it's just about putting in the work. I'm just working.
In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
Most of the songs I sing have that blues feeling in it. They have that sorry feeling. And I don't know what I'm sorry about. I don't.
Though dreams can be deceiving; like faces are to hearts, they serve for sweet relieving, when fantasy and reality lie too far apart.
At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
If people choose to engage on a one-dimensional level that's fine. But going beyond the surface can enrich ourselves as human beings.
For me, it shouldn't just be a live show: it should be an experience. It should be some kind of crazy, tribal, exhausting experience.
The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.
Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.
Loss either teaches you to persist in the face of suffering, or hardens you into a bitter cynic. Sometimes, it does a little of both.
Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.
New socialize by insulting each other, but don`t really mean it. Woman socialize by complimenting each other but don`t really mean it
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.
To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'roundWith tombstones in their eyesBut the pusher don't careAh, if you live or if you die
When I said I was born a feminist, I was born thinking woman are equal to men, if not stronger than men. That's the way I always was.
It sort of depends on the song. Some of them are pretty easy to write, and others take a while. I do a lot of writing in the morning.
Who’s to say what’s impossible? Well they forgot this world keeps spinning. And with each new day, I can feel a change in everything.
It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.
Songs like 'Outfit' and 'Decoration Day' and 'Dress Blues,' those were good songs, but the output wasn't as consistent in those days.
People always tell me, when I want to get in the mood of a party or when I'm at a party and they put a Jay Sean song on I feel happy.
I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.
You have to figure out ways to do things on your own. I do my own thing, and I don't pay much attention to what anyone else is doing.
I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.
When you're a 'product' for a lot of people, they're only really after one thing, and so it's hard to completely let down your guard.
I'm very, very lucky - when I realised I was sexually attracted to females there wasn't a struggle where I found that hard to accept.
Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.
When I was growing up, my mother would take me to plays and museums, and we'd talk about life. Those times helped shape who I became.
If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.
Dad never really got over Jack's death and was deeply inspired by his brother throughout his life to delve deeper into his own faith.
I have one major problem with the internet: It's full of liars. There doesn't seem to be any way to answer to people lying about you.
Back in the day, if you did any commercials or were affiliated with a company you were a sellout. Now it's kind of normal to do that.
It's cool to have parents and family who will always tell me the truth no matter what. They'll tell me if I'm doing something stupid!
It depends on how Johnny's feeling... If we go back on the road, we will go together. I'll go where he goes, and he'll go where I go.
As far as the press is concerned, they're going to say what they want to say. Probably about 10-15 percent of the time It's accurate.
Listening to Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna gave me the confidence I needed to get up on stage and be photographed every night on tour.
I've become aware of being in a very male-dominated industry where a door opens and it's like, 'Oh hello, it's 12 men and me. Again.'
The thing about Christmas is that it almost doesn't matter what mood you're in or what kind of a year you've had; it's a fresh start.