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Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
My hope for the future, not just in the music industry, but in every young girl I meet…is that they all realize their worth and ask for it.
I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
I think that it's okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn't about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.
I don't give a bleep if gays get married. That's just a contract, and that's between them and God. That ain't up to me to play God on that.
I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.
You got to tell me the brave captain Why are the wicked so strong? How do the angels get to sleep When the devil leaves the porch light on?
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice
I never was strutting through the hallways like, "Yeah, I'm a singer/songwriter." That's never a cool thing to do - to be the brooding guy.
When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.
There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.
I feel much more physically connected to my voice, and I like the physicality of the voice, and how the voice can physically occupy a song.
Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.
I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing.
Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was 'Romeo & Juliet'? How long were they together? A few days.
With the R&B, gospel feel that 'Sparkle' has, that opens the door for my fans to be more accepting of that sound and also for me to try it.
How could you not let your life affect your work? That's all it is. Unless you have a very specific, isolated version of what you're doing.
I have my mother who is an Irish-Italian, and my father who is African, so I have the taste buds of an Italian and the spice of an African.
I was born on March 3, 1970, as Mom and Dad's stardom was nearing its peak, while The Johnny Cash Show, was airing regularly on network TV.
I love throwing parties and being sociable and dancing. But I also have this other homebody side and can become quite isolated and anxious.
It wasn't so long ago that it was not popular to speak Gaelic in Ireland because the areas that Gaelic is spoken in were much poorer areas.
Lots of headless chickens running around - artists with 14 million followers on Twitter, some making millions, none making cultural impact.
The video aside, 'P.D.A' is a song about when you really love somebody, you just can't resist wanting to show that out in public sometimes.
When I first heard that song, it was a ballad but it had a lot more. It felt like a gospel song when I first heard it and it just moved me.
Nowadays, everyone has a camera phone, and you have to be careful about being caught out there looking crazy and ending up on the Internet.
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.
When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.
I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.
I think that when you carry a certain kind of energy, if you have, like, a funky energy that you hold within yourself, you just can't grow.
I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.
You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
On Sirius, I can find anything I want. They have about four or five different metal channels, rock channels; there's a whole Elvis channel.
Four directors through their own interpretation created four different characters. And I had to play them in a fairly short period of time.
John Prine in particular... just the chord changes combined with the words. He definitely can make you cry a little bit. Just a little bit.
When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six.
Once you've figured out how to wait on people and clean toilets, it makes you very mindful of how you treat the people who are serving you.
I knew I wanted to make a concept record in song-cycle form, like my favorite Marvin Gaye records where everything just continuously flows.
All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.
I never tire of the drive from Phoenix to San Diego, and it is mostly desert, obviously, but you get different varieties of desert terrain.
I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.
I'd love to give my music to someone who really likes to wow the crowd. I feel like half the time I just want to hide in the dressing room!
My eyeliner is part of my face. There are elements that I'll change here and there, but my eyeliner, with little wings, that never changes.
I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
I'm going to obviously do my best as a father to set a good example for my children, and I want them to see good examples from our leaders.
Businesswomen are fine. But they shouldn't be forced to pay for the raising of the family. It's the husband's job. That's the way I see it.