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I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.
In the past, I've been a bit diffident about my own albums, almost excusing them for some reason, even though deep down I felt strongly about them.
You shouldn't feel you have to label yourself for someone else to understand you. You should be able to feel what you want to feel and that's okay.
I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.
Lots of people have gone from public housing to do great things in the world and have a tremendous sense of duty to their fellow man because of it.
Can you imagine a 6 year old banging all day on a drum kit. I do have photos of me in my sort of princess girly bedroom with a bad-ass sparkle set.
If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.
I've always spent a lot of time on my records with what I think were unique rhythmic approaches... but no one ever writes about your rhythm playing
We do not let slip from our understanding that America was founded on a bonding of many people, from many places and of various color and religion.
There are a lot of things about my father, various things, that people connect with. He was that diverse of a person, and he has a diverse fanbase.
I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have the power to help them, we should try to do that.
Music wasn't forced on me [in my childhood]. It was something I wanted to do. And ever since, I've never stopped, I've never stopped playing music.
You know, my family is very musical, I was surrounded by it. And from four years old I was the one that asked my mother could I take piano lessons.
Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.
A lot of Woody Guthrie's songs were taken from other songs. He would rework the melody and lyrics, and all of a sudden it was a Woody Guthrie song.
You know that first love that leaves you? You never forget that, especially if you're a songwriter. I must have gotten nine songs out of that girl.
If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to.
When you go to awards shows these days, you can walk through a room and they give you everything for free: sunglasses, guitars, stuff for the wife.
They really don't know where the future lies. If developers decide to build a high-rise where the McCormick building is, they'd have nowhere to go.
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
But if we can learn to fall more in love with the Lord and trust Him in the middle of every storm, we build our endurance to keep running the race.
Its so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
I'd also like to explore more of Georgia, my home country, because one day I really want to make an album that is written in the Georgian language.
People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.
I love dressing up and doing the red carpet every once in a while, but I am very much a jeans kinda girl, so it's all a little embarrassing for me.
It was really weird to have a hit. Of course, we had a certain level of fame in the Pixies, but nothing I had ever done had been mall-kid friendly.
When I wrote 'Help Me Make It Through the Night,' I was on an oil platform out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico and was just thinking of myself.
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head.
One of the only things I've regretted was saying yes to a TV special, 'Motown Mania,' and I said I'll sing you a Diana Ross song. It was just naff.
I love pouring my heart out. People don't want to hear you whine when you're with friends, so you can sing about it instead - it's the best outlet.
I cheat on my books a lot, which is not a good thing because it's good to stick with one book and get to the end of it, but I'm a book philanderer.
Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
If you don't want to have your private life splashed everywhere, why go to the restaurants and the places you know you're going to be photographed?
American Odyssey' will be an amazing adventure inside the musical walls of our cities. It's theater, and radio has always been great theater to me.
There are still times I feel unhappy and I must smile, and there are times I want to cry and I must laugh... people rarely see the real Marvin Gaye
I'm openly gay, and I've got a major label record deal in Nashville, and it happened when I was 42 years old. It's not supposed to happen that way.
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
When I think of Spirit, I think of that mysterious force that pulls us into being, into becoming, into love. That can get political rather quickly.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness.
I don't think of myself as a singer; I usually end up singing when I can't find anyone better to sing, or when I'm too lazy to find someone better.
I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
I was losing sight of myself and started to get anxiety and stress. You work at such a pace and you don't have time to sit with yourself and think.
I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.
The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.