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It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it.
I'm not saying I look cool, but every single time I go onstage, it is a fail if I don't feel like I'm going to pass out at least twice.
Just seeing people appreciate what you do, come out and support it, and sing the songs back, there's not a better feeling in the world.
The closest Ive come to knowing myself is in losing myself. Thats why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.
Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.
Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food and that inspires me.
Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.
I'm really happy about American Woman, it brought the Guess Who back. They started gigging again and got their song out on commercials.
Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.
Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.
I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.
I just had to find all my friends that used to be in the business. As I say, the music business didn't die, it just moved to Nashville.
I knew I'd made it when I was sitting on the bus into Rochdale and there was an old man listening to one of my songs. It was fantastic.
When it's me in my living room, it's pretty pure, and then what gets recorded involves more people, and it keeps escalating from there.
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
I do think of myself as a queen, but I don't think I'm the only queen. There's room for other queens. We reign over different kingdoms.
Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can.
Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.
I love producing! It's so much fun to start with a blank canvas and create the picture you want to create and see it all come together.
People in my neighborhood inspired me to sing. Believe in your ability no matter what, but be realistic with yourself and your ability.
I mean, I know my heart is not clean, and your heart is not clean, and none of our urban hearts are clean. But you can be washed again.
I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.
The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.
I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.
Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.
I always tell people that I'll sound exactly like Alanis Morissette after I've had more boyfriends. I'll be just as anguished-sounding.
I taught Bible Study, and there was period where I thought all of my beliefs were right, and everybody who disagreed with me was wrong.
My goal with everything that I do is to present things in a way that I would want to see if I was in the audience or buying the record.
We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.
I used to be brave. In the past, I've opened a restaurant, had a record label, had my daughter and it was go, go, go with all of these.
I was shy. Bookish. The kind of 13-year-old girl who, instead of having a boyfriend, would have a crush on a dead, 19th-century author!
I honestly don't feel that it's my music that's under-appreciated. I think that it's me that's under-appreciated. As an artist, period.
The lyrics aren't simple, either. They're extremely difficult because I'm trying to say complicated things in as few words as possible.
If you're a female and you get asked by someone who shoots the most beautiful female scenes to be in their film, it's kind of exciting.
I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.
When I got my first publishing deal, I felt some responsibility to try to write with the people that they were asking me to write with.
When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.
I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.
I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
The whole process of working with Steven [Sebring] and being filmed by him helped me psychologically to get my feet back on the ground.
It's not uncool to worry about people who seem like they're going on the wrong path. There's nothing cool about being self-destructive.
At the age of 15 months my daughter was diagnosed with very bad asthma, and essentially I put my career on hold for a good eight years.
For every individual who gets killed, someone should build a school or teach a child. We really need to balance things with positivity.
Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
When I was born, I was born very prematurely so I was very tiny and small. And so, my mom just nicknamed me Pixie, like a little fairy.
I enjoy going to work and having a good time. It's tough when you got to work with people who just are in a bad mood all the damn time.