Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
I'm very selfish in that I make music for myself, not for other people; I kind of only think about other people afterwards when it's out.
I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.
I loved Justice and Uffie and everyone signed to the label Ed Banger. They were really influential to me when first started making music.
As a writer I'm always mindful that not everyone is going to feel the same way I do about something, so my emotions are just my emotions.
I can fix dishwashers. I was brought up in a castle with no money and lots of imagination. I learnt a lot about plumbing at an early age.
When you get a little older, you think, I'd like to make a little money and stick it away or buy a place - or win the world championship.
I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.
I'd become a corporate rock musician. I worked for 'Chris Rea.' He felt like another person. I even talked about him in the third person.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be, that's stupid. So be yourself.
Be stupid, be dumb, be funny, if that's who you are. Don't try to be someone that society wants you to be; that's stupid. So be yourself.
I don't have the ability to be a diva. I can't flaunt. I don't have that kind of stage presence. I think of myself as just a band member.
My fans have grown up with me and seen my life change over the years, from a young girl with 'Goodies' to a full-grown woman and now mom.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
A boycott is, inherently, a blunt instrument. It is an imperfect weapon, a carpet bomb, when all involved would prefer a surgical strike.
Youll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.
If you're lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street
Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope
Put all our pride away, always find a gentle word to say, you know we shouldn't be full of ourselves when we should be full of humility .
Morality should have to do with killing people or hurting them or stealing from them, but when it comes to adult choices, I don't see it.
When the Internet came along, the first thing I did was look up Wu-Tang so I could print out their symbol and glue it onto my skateboard.
Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.
If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.
I don't like to give advice. I like to give people information because everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.
I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivated by, but music and visuals go hand in hand.
I look up to Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn and old styles. You will never see me in a crop top and hot pants - I'm more into dresses.
My girlfriend at the time convinced me to send these songs to Cavity Search. When they wanted to put out my record I was totally shocked.
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
I'm even able to have kind of a little bit of a second career in dog rescue. Doesn't pay anything, but it's become a real passion for me.
Recording - once something's done, it's done, there's not much you can do about it. It's out there and you just have to pray to the gods.
I'm in training to become a midwife. I'm almost there and before I know it I'll be able to open my own practice, if that's what I desire.
Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can waver from day to day, hour to hour.
You were standin' way too close to see it fall apart. And there were things you couldn't hear, 'cause you were listening with your heart.
I'm not a good time-off person. I'm awful on holiday. It comes from having that period when I didn't work. That really was the worst bit.
I used to skip school to go there when I was growing up in Newark, ... I saw the Flamingos, the Heartbeats, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Jackson.
I have a history of eating disorders but, as a mother, you think of being an example to your child. I'm so much more balanced than I was.
I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.'
I think that the only way to teach is by example, as children will more easily follow what they see you do than what you tell them to do.
I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.
Too many people try to please their parents. My parents were Republicans, which is too bad, but they allowed me to be who I wanted to be.
Something we're really known for is our signature harmonies, our great melodies - stuff that just makes you feel something and moves you.
Because you never know where life is gonna take you, And you can't change where you've been, But today, I have the opportunity to choose.
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
I never doubted the issue from the beginning. I knew I was too good for Burns. I have forgotten more about fighting than Burns ever knew.
I've always loved the word blunderbuss. I've always thought that it was a beautiful word and that it could mean several different things.
I'm self-deprecating because I'm British, and that's what we're supposed to be. I'm sure if I was American, I'd tell you how great I was.
It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like
I was thinking of applying to the 'Guardian' for a job after university. Yeah, I wanted to be one of the people who writes stories in G2.
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.