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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.
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.
I don't take drugs. I never did. All the feelings that drugs are supposed to produce in you - confidence or energy - I can produce naturally.
Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me, I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
I have ambitions to do a Broadway record one of these days and get in the studio with like, a real orchestra. I'm a big musical theatre geek.
This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like that, and I don't want to be a typical pop star.
When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."
The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.
After something has run its course, you either become a parody and keep doing it, or tear it down and know the truth about it, warts and all.
I think I've got a real love thing going. I love people, I love life, and I love nature, and I can't see why other people can't be like that.
I have days when I say, 'I'm going to have five chocolate chip cookies today.' I'll have a salad every day but every week I have a cheat day.
If a person ever came to me as a fan and tried to go out on a date, I wouldn't. I've had enough kind of crazy experiences in that department.
I kept looking to do songs that were written years ago and would live or outlive all of us, and the one thing they had in common was Sinatra.
I've always enjoyed the enthusiasm of the best studio musicians and, over the years, have collected so many inspired contributions from them.
The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.
There are so many dimensions in my music, and I think mostly what people hear is hope - the describing of experiences and the wonders of life
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.
Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
I'd sometimes fly for 14 hours, then go straight to dialysis. I spent a little time being tired, but we managed. I'm not a pity-party person.
I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.
We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens.
I'm a big believer in pushing yourself outside your comfort zone and stretching yourself artistically, but not at the expense of foolishness.
I think you really have to know what you want if you want to be an artist. Otherwise, you just kind of end up in space, just floating around.
I try to stick to a certain diet all the time, and then when I feel like a reward, I have it. I try to stick to no dairy, no sugar, no wheat.
A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
I have been told that I have been played at - my music's been played at funerals, deaths, births, weddings. Weddings, I find very surprising.
Life is so mundane, isn't it? It's great to hear a guitarist getting into it and the rhythmic section blasting, even if it's all meaningless.
My behavioural problems are non-existent because all my freakiness, I guess, is manifested in a visual way. And I never have come unravelled.
A model wears clothes and looks good, which is very passive. It's not like a musician promoting a new album. You don't have to read about it.
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
I sang in English my whole life; I just happened to decide that I had a passion for Latin music, and I wanted to jump into Latin music first.
I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.
This is the Republican Party who has run against Russia for 80 years and you know, (Trump) hasn't mentioned (Putin) except in a positive way.
I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
I think I would like to be a monk. I really considered Catholicism a few years ago, but there were some things that I just couldnt reconcile.
If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.
If I had gone to art college and everybody was being a conceptual artist, I probably would have wanted to be a portrait or landscape painter.
I like the Sci Fi channel and 'Science Fiction Theatre.' I've been doing a lot of television-watching and thinking about good songs to write.
I'm not just selling out Yankee Stadium; I'm selling out stadiums in Mexico, in Argentina - with my bachata. I try to stay true to what I do.
I make them all my girlfriends. I just express to each and every one of them every chance I get that I have millions of girlfriends, my fans.
There's really no "bad" people; there's just humans who are doing the best they can to figure life out. It's hard! We can all relate to that.
Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
I have lots of desires - good body, nice skin, cute, beautiful, knows how to cook, concentrates on her work, a girl that's worth the respect.
If a person hides the truth or says something fake on variety shows or interviews, it will still be found out no matter how careful they are.