If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95!

The next thing that happened to me was that I, we, were living in Paris where I then grew up.

Faith is something a lot of people relate to as a God-thing, but it's also faith in yourself.

I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

I wrote 'Road Less Traveled' to make myself feel better and process what I was going through.

I will love you all my life and when I die I will still love you through eternity and beyond.

I don't want to wake up and not truly be enjoying my life and these amazing things around me.

I was in the top 10 rock n' roll artists - up there with Sid Vicious. I always had that edge.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

I've been trying to find a balance between all things in my life - personal, singing, acting.

I always knew I was going to come home at some point, and I wanted to have a name for myself.

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

I got this cheap guitar, and then I fell in love with it and basically put down the keyboard.

If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be.

See, I'm looking for a man that'll rub me slow, make me sing real high when he goes down low.

It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.

The minute I started addressing my feelings, I actually came out of very negative situations.

You can't trust the 'specials' like the old time 'coppers' When you can't find your way home.

There is a great feeling in a small venue, with the closeness of the people and the intimacy.

I'm a perfectionist, and even if something comes out great, it's still not perfect, you know?

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!

I know it sounds corny, but I look for a girl that has a beautiful personality on the inside.

There's the fatigue that you have to forget about, because the red curtain still has to rise.

Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

I actually started as a concert pianist. I had a scholarship to the Julliard School of Music.

I have written for, very fortunately, some great singers from Frank Sinatra to Elvis Presley.

There are people who compose from very young. That is not my case. I went discovering myself.

I'm a little bit of everything. That's what makes Nicky Jam so different from everybody else.

Things began to pick up for me record-wise when in 1971 I wrote 'She's a Lady' for Tom Jones.

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

I've been told by people that it's okay to cry but, you know what, it's been used against me.

If they weren't laughing with me, okay; if they want to laugh at me it's better than nothing.

People like to put you in a little box, and that's where they are comfortable with you being.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

I'm not a terrible smoker, actually. My major addiction, which is horrible, is straight boys.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.

I'm happy that I have a look, but I don't over-analyse whether or not it's beautiful or ugly.

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

[I'll be the first one of the Smith to die.] I'll be shot - probably by one of the ex-Smiths.

If I end up showering first, I shower really quickly for the sake of the other tired members.

Seeing TVXQ's music and stage makes me feel touched, and they're a very good influence on us.

People think that if they read something in the newspaper or see it on TV, it has to be true.

No matter who you are or where you're from somewhere down the road you're gonna need someone.

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