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I don't ever feel that it's necessary to say certain things. I think we can be very suggestive. I think we can allude to certain things.
Don't sit there and wallow in woe-is-me stuff that happened in your past. Move forward. Face whatever you're afraid of. Or deal with it.
So long, Mom I'm off to drop the bomb So don't wait up for me But while you swelter Down there in your shelter You can see me On your TV
I like Thelonious Monk, he's so gnarled, he's like a piece of machinery that's pulled up the bolts on the floor and gone off on its own.
I just don't like the word 'fun'--it's like Volkswagen, or bell-bottoms, or patchouli-oil or bean-sprouts...it rubs me up the wrong way.
I think this whole division between the genres has more to do with marketing than anything else. It's terrible for the culture of music.
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.
If there used to be 100 people at a major working on a record, now there are 18, but they're the good ones. There's a lean, mean hunger.
You are my superstar. I'm your number one fan, give me your autograph, sign it right here on my heart. Girl, I'll be your groupie, baby.
I'm so sad to hear the horrible news of Amy Winehouse's death. I'm so happy I knew you Amy...Rest Well. Gone Too Soon...we'll miss you!!
I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.
I don't like to condemn people because what that means is that you're only condemning yourself about a part of you that you can't stand.
Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.
I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.
I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.
I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
We made mad love shadow love random love and abandoned love. Accidentally like a martyr. The hurt gets worse, and the heart gets harder.
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
All of my scenes were with Jason Isaacs. I could definitely see myself going on an adventure with him, and learning as an actor from him.
I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
So forgive me, love, if I cry in your shower. So forgive me, love, for the salt in your bed. So forgive me, love, if I cry all afternoon.
I lived with my mom in a really small apartment. My bedroom was like in the living room. That's why I still love to sleep on couches now.
If I'm working on one thing, then that's all that there is going on, and there's no such thing as a side project to me. It's 100 percent.
I love Tokyo, I've been several times. The first trip was just weird; it was a weird time. It was in the '90s, and it was different then.
My will, my faith and my body have been challenged, but make no mistake, my heart is strong and my resolve to fight will never be broken.
I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.
When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
As a mother, you have that impulse to wish that no child should ever be hurt, or abused, or go hungry, or not have opportunities in life.
I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
No matter what people say, your fans are the ones that come to watch the movie or come to your shows and that's the most important thing.
I think Saturday may be Latin for "stay in pajamas til noon then eventually motivate yourself to shower and get ready for bed that night.
Then, when my dad was diagnosed with cancer, I started to notice this crazy transformation, where he fell desperately in love with Jesus.
When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band.
I think that the wonderful thing about music and about songs is that you can listen to a three-minute song whenever you feel you need it.
As a musician you're always your own worst critic and you're always digging into your songs and evaluating your own self-worth of things.
I was just a music lover who wondered what it would sound like if Otis Redding strapped on a guitar and played in a punk band. That's it.
The shape is the most important to me because it is what really matters and what's really missing in the market. Anything else is easier.
I was overcome by the Holy Ghost one time, but in a Baptist way. I was six or seven, and I was saved. I just cried and cried. It was joy!
Just remember, during the winter, far beneath the bitter snow, that there's a seed that with the sun's love in the spring becomes a rose.
I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.
I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.
Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by male energy.
And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure.
You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know?
Nobody could understand why a guy would love his guitar, then all of a sudden turn around and try to destroy it. Jimi was just different.
I like to swim, I like to play with my dogs and I love to eat - but I have to start watching that because my suits are getting too small.
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.
I don't think I'm influencing younger artists - they're not trying to be me. But I don't say that in bitterness. I say that with realism.
I really believe you'll get a music video one of these days that I shot with an iPad because it's that consistent and that good. It's HD.