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I feel like I'm a quick learner and I'm also very quick to forget. That's why I can't play an instrument because I can't bloody remember it.
Love comes to everybody in many different ways. Attraction is always the first thing, no? But love must be more than that. It must be magic.
I enjoy creating. And if you can do it in a cool way, do it. You can't worry about disappointing people or what their expectations might be.
My process is always the same. Maybe that's why I stay so consistent, it really doesn't change. I only know one way to record and do things.
The world is getting so reality-driven these days. It seems to be accelerating exponentially. But it's a dangerous game for a lot of people.
I dont ever want to part with any of my shoes. They all have a special place in my heart because they say something about who you are today.
It's amazing to impact people's lives - it's a cool thing to have the spotlight and be able to reassure people, to say, "It's OK to be you."
But you're not really emotionally mature in your 20s. Well, we weren't. You don't say anything, you just bottle it up and then it builds up.
We were so young when we started, quite naive and shy - we kind of knew what we were doing but didn't because we hadn't been stage schooled.
Life`s a long and winding ride, better have the right one by your side; And happiness don`t drug its feet, time moves faster than you think.
Use Creme de la Mer balm when your skin gets dry on a plane. You can put it on your cheeks to give your face a bit of a glow after you land.
When I was 20, I moved up to Boston with my girlfriend, who's now my wife. She went to grad school, and I met a bunch of cool friends there.
My parents were quite strict; we couldn't just listen to whatever music we wanted. It was very much like they monitored what we listened to.
I found it a really refreshing change of pace to suddenly be completely directed. It was a type of collaboration that I don't normally have.
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs.
No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.
Don't let some random comment that you wouldn't have even thought about overshadow something important that you were actually trying to say.
I don't keep a journal anymore. I did when I was a teenager, but now because I write about it all in my songs, that's what I'm really doing.
Touring is really about being on edge the whole time - you're like a racing horse: you've just got to be on. You've got to pull it together.
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you've come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
You don't have to have a language in common with someone for a sexual rapport. But it helps if the language you don't understand is Italian.
I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
So often, the singer is the sound of the record. People think they can cover anything, but the whole voice is the thing that's unrepeatable.
I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and it's my favorite way of figuring an outfit.
To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?
I believe there are certain things that God uses to get us out of a bad situation, and I believe music was one of the things he used for me.
I'm a child of God. God is my mommy, my daddy. That's the only thing that'll keep my head up. If I don't remember who I am in him, I'm done.
It still hasn't kicked in yet. I haven't had a second to think about it. And I don't physically have the Grammy! So I can't even look at it!
I totally agree with equal rights and women's causes, and most of my songs are woman-power, but I don't want to be labelled at 20 years old.
I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.
Once you encounter people who are really testing the limits of kindness, that's when you start to build up a shield and close yourself down.
Ive always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
As corny as it sounds, natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. The stars, the mountains, children, babies smiling are just magic.
When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away].
They (children) are my teachers. I watch them and I learn. It is important for us to try and be like them and imitate them. They are golden.
I've always been interested in film, so to get involved in any way in the genesis of making a film or music for a film is fascinating to me.
I think that first and foremost, a lot of turntable artists end up using really the same sounds over and over, and they really get recycled.
Under no circumstances do I ever want to see any part of me having sex! I wouldn't want to see video tape, pictures, in the mirror, nothing.
I suppose that being moved to write a song is more applicable to me, I have to be moved, I have to have a reason to write a particular song.
I just think motherhood made me better, I think it rejuvenates you as a person, mind, body and spirit, and I think every woman is different.
We are born with a lingering hunger We are born to be unsatisfied We are strangers who can't help but wander And dream about the other side.
I used to try to draw my girlfriends. I think one of the most romantic things that anybody can do is draw a portrait of the person you love.
I don't think there's necessarily anything that's rock solid about any marriage. It's all about that balance, especially when you have kids.
I felt that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to do certain things, and one of them was to have a hit in my own right. At least one.
The first time I did everything was in Paisley - the first time I went to the pictures or the bowling or the ice rink or the swimming baths.
Busking taught me so much on so many levels, not just about being a musician or writing songs - actually about growing up and being a human!
'Hell Or High Water' was written after the end of a relationship, and I do feel like every Passenger album has the obligatory break-up song.
My bucket list is pretty much checked off. But oh, we should play in space! Let's do that. We'll play in space, up on a satellite somewhere.