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I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.
I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.
I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.
One day, I just got up to read a poem and started singing. I looked around - the reaction was great. And I said, oh, boy. I like this.
We need more fruitcakes in this world and less bakers! We need people that care! I'm mad as hell! And I don't want to take it anymore!
My first lessons lasted two weeks and it was Jingle Bells. It didn't make any sense at all. I wanted to know how to play like Hendrix.
I'm craving more soul, I'm craving more truth, I'm craving more socially - just people that are aware of what's going on in the world.
But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.
What do you have to do to get people to take an interest? I'm not going to go out and cause a silly sex scandal just to sell a record!
Maybe I'm a prehistoric monster by being an individual. It's highly likely. All I offer to others is their own individuality. Grab it!
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
I've been in fortunate position of never really having to battle with my record company to do the things I wanted to do in the studio.
I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.
I'd love to own a bakery at some point. My grandmother could help me run it - she is an amazing baker! I'd also love to do a cookbook.
When it comes to the acting stuff, I like to show up for a couple days and kind of be outrageous and silly, and go back to my day job.
People started saying I was ignoring my country, making up stories about me. Ludicrous things, like that I throw tea on my assistants.
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person.
When I was 18, I'd be out four nights a week - I want to have that energy again but I've found I'm a bit old and ready for retirement.
There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.
It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.
I'll be honest; I'm a student of fashion. I say that because I just wear what I feel. I'm not led by name brands and things like that.
I don’t even think of myself as a quote, unquote star - that’s really douchey. I think of myself as just like . . . a dance commander.
The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.
When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in.
I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.
If I had to associate myself with one song, it would probably be Let Love Rule. It's so simple and to the point. It speaks for itself.
I come in with this rock 'n' roll-oriented music, and it's not black enough . . . I've always had to deal with this black-white thing.
Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.
I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.
There's even more stuff that I'd like to release, but I'm scared to, that's really, um, nerdy... not nerdy in a good way. Like, silly.
Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.
Sometimes I was in a mood to write a song as if I was writing in my journal and reveal certain parts of me that I was ready to reveal.
Growing up in the public spotlight and having insecurities like every other girl, I really know what it's like to feel self-conscious.
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.
I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.
I am here in spirit with you and you are in my prayers. Remember God is with you, and have faith in the fact that this too shall pass.
Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
When I was small I didn't really know what i was doing. I just sang and it came out sounding pretty good. I just do it and it happens.
The main thing that excites me and makes me want to get out of bed is the thought of being able to go into my studio to work on music.
The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.
I've made records that everyone has hated and I've loved, and made records that everyone has loved and I've deemed, at best, mediocre.
I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure.
When I was growing up I was an atheist, then an agnostic, and then I had a good eight or ten years of being quite a serious Christian.
I'm sure most people have this experience: when you're young you drink, you do drugs, you stay up late, and there are no consequences.
Oftentimes things that seem really difficult and traumatic in the short term seem a lot less difficult and traumatic in the long term.
I don't want to get too nuanced, but we have the electoral college in the United States and that means we don't have direct democracy.
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.