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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.
I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.
I am deeply in tune with my heart and core, and it's made me a better writer, artist, and most of all woman. It's made me more myself.
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.
We learn our lessons; we get hurt; we want revenge. Then we realize that actually, happiness and forgiving people is the best revenge.
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.
Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.
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'm just a hometown boy from Grand Rapids, Michigan - where I still live - who is trying do what he feels that he's been called to do.
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.
By the time I approached my forties, I had the self-assurance to approach all the genres I love so deeply: R & B, rock, jazz, and pop.
I like singer-songwriters, and I find sad songs comforting rather than depressing. It makes you realise you're not alone in the world.
It's very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can't learn from our history, we're nowhere.
I'm heavy into 'Max Payne 3'. That's a good one. I like any of the fighting games and all of the 'Tekken' and 'Street Fighter' series.
Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory.
You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.
I think there's something extraordinarily nice about seeing the dawn up before one goes to bed, [] there's something uncanny about it.
I like Instagram - it's a good way to keep up with my friends without having to text or call all the time, and I really like Snapchat.
I feel really fortunate to come from a home that was always supportive and stemming from creativity, integrity and building character.
I tell my 5-year-old, 'Once you commit to something, stick it out.' I would never want him to look at Dad and think Dad was a quitter.
I like to get off my phone because when I sit with my phone, I don't feel creative cos I'm just sitting reading other people's things.
I was thrust into the spotlight and didn't really know what I was doing. The opportunity was amazing but I wasn't ready for any of it.
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
God bless Ray Charles. It was such an honor to meet him and sing with him and actually just to watch him sing from just two feet away.
As a dancer, you learn the importance of transitional moments. If you figure out what you can do next, that's how you don't get stuck.
Sometimes when you get frustrated, your back is against the wall, and you come out fighting and knock out three songs in as many days.
I think you've got to be careful with social media. You can get addicted to the buzz of people liking and commenting. It's exhausting.
An artist may have burdens the ordinary citizen doesn't know, but the ordinary citizen has burdens that many artists never even touch.
The thing is that as you grow through life, the pursuit of art and the pursuit of new ideas, all these things keeps your mind elastic.
One thing I liked about 'Silver Bell' is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.
Society wants to put us in a box and say, OK, you do this and you do that and you do this, and I'm like, no, I like this, I like that.
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.