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If you felt like somebody made you feel worthless, that is a lie. You are valuable, you deserve to be treated as a valuable precious treasure.
I'm feelin' electric tonight Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99 Got my bad baby by my heavenly side I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight
I love my voice. But I'd be the first one to make a criticism of it, so I'm not the best person to critique because I'm pretty hard on myself.
We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.
I try not to diet because it never really works for me, if I tell myself I can't eat something then I tend to want to eat everything in sight.
From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.
I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.
I've always had this identity thing. When I was little, I was always changing my handwriting because I couldn't decide which one I liked best.
I know I idolise someone like Billie Holiday, but I don't look at her and think I have to imitate her lifestyle, to try and sing like she did.
You know that something is good but you never really know how good. You always underestimate how much of an impact something is going to have.
I always give the encore over to chaos, so people can yell out requests and I can hack my way through a song that I don't really know anymore.
When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.
I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.
When I play, I'm so in the moment that I can't really remember what happened afterwards. It's a rare experience for a thinking person like me.
I always feel like I've been slightly misunderstood. As a woman, you get judged for appearances or things like that I don't really care about.
If you have to ask for something more than once or twice, it wasn't yours in the first place. And that's hard to accept when you love someone.
I wanna be with you, if only for a night to be the one who's in your arms to hold you tight. I wanna be with you, there's nothing left to say.
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
Creating something beautiful out of pain helps ease the pain. So, that's kind of how I got to songwriting - quite honestly out of desperation.
I think it's a stereotype that soldiers don't talk, because my experience is that they will talk if they are met with empathy and no judgment.
I still take acting, singing, and dance classes. I think no matter where you go in your career, you can always learn more and better yourself.
I hope that you know in your heart how you feel about things, and you don't let the people that live on fear and hate govern the way you live.
Our society, where we are right now, our minds are junkyards. We watch TV and sit on the computer all day and barely have an original thought.
Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.
I have my own record company. I have to answer to God, basically. I'm not young, so I want to make the best possible work I can before I exit.
As far as playing playing festivals and everything, I feel like that's what I was born to do. I'm an entertainer, hopefully in the best sense.
It's [music composition] the most effortless thing in the world because you don't do anything. I hate to say it like that, but it's the truth.
I can't think of any time we had a discussion [with Dre] about the aftermath of what happened the night before. We just had too much going on.
For me, surviving Compton is surviving the men, because Suge and Dre are from Compton. So in my world, in my mind, I survived their mentality.
Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.
I guess I'm getting to the age where a lot of other people my age have real jobs, and when they're hard-up they refer to an old-timer like me.
In 1991 I did an interview wherein I described myself as a 'teetotal Christian,' which was an exaggeration, although I do like tea and Christ.
Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies.
My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.
We used to have to arrange things around the dialysis. I would have to plan where to play so I could be back in time, and couldn't go too far.
It's rewarding to know that a song is doing more than just helping someone to have a nice day: it's actually leaving a deposit in their lives.
My mom was the picture of the blue-collar mom: Two and three and four jobs to make sure that me and my sister never needed, that was her thing
I feel, as an artist, that we don't do enough to appreciate our fans. We are in this position because of the fans, and it's really a blessing.
Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.
I have a lot of confidence, but little Self-Esteem. This has given me a tremendous creative spark because it forced me to keep proving myself.
I really don't care what people say. It's amazing that feminism continues to exist at all, considering how much counter-feminism is out there.
And if the Son has set us free Then we must be, free indeed Let the chains fall away, starting today. Everything has changed I'm finally free.
I remember pogs and sticky hands. I remember both. I wanted to get into pogs. I remember it was, like, all of a sudden it was here, then gone.
The world of music is changing so dramatically every day, the way people hear music. It's different. It's a new day and requires new thinking.
I see my career as not just music, but as hopefully an entertainer on all mediums, and someone who can have real influence and make great art.
To a certain extent, yes, we do. But there's - but there's a very limited menu. There's only about sort of 20 songs that you hear on rotation.
Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.
All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
I think you're in trouble if you start chasing what you've done in the past. You always need to move on and look forward and do something new.