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If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.
Sometimes I was frivolous. Did you have some frivolous years? I had to live mine out in public.
I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real.
Jazz has a lot to do with being very present. You know the structure, then you flow through it.
I think recording at home feels more organic, and injects some more personality into the music.
When I found out my mother wanted me to marry a rich man, I instantly didn't want any rich man.
I deleted all the games from my computer. I spent days trawling the Internet. I started slowly.
I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.
The very first show I ever saw was The Judds, and that influenced me to not play country music.
To be part of what you're singing about is somewhat painful. You've got to climb inside it all.
I've certainly developed as a vocalist. I find my early recordings very difficult to listen to.
There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls.
No matter the genre, music is a universal language and vibration that people can feel all over.
During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.
When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
The key to the future of the world is finding the optimistic stories and letting them be known.
I hope you came out to hear some bluegrass music. If you didn't, we're both in the wrong place.
I hate negative songs; I won't sing them. It doesn't matter if it's sold 2 million more albums.
Blues fallin' down like hail And the day keeps on worryin' me There's a hell hound on my trail.
I've really learned a lot, really learned a lot, love is like a stove, burns you when it's hot.
But I don't even think you hear me at all Under your medieval ceiling behind your biblical wall
I know my boyfriend loves to have something to hold onto. Theres a lot of men out there who do.
I just get onstage and sing. I don't think about how I'm going to do it - it's too complicated.
I was watching the show last year and it didn't even cross my mind that this could even happen.
Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.
Well, you know, if you do 200 shows a year, they're not all going to be like Castle Donnington.
I'm not the guy to get big record company budgets. My budget is Britney Spears' catering money.
Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.
No British politician has ever been more despised by the British people than Margaret Thatcher.
Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.
The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.
I hope that my niece in 20 years is going to say to me, 'Aunt Stevie, what was with your hair?'
A smart man can't beat a hardworking man and a hard working man can't beat a happy working man.
Ive always been able to transform happiness and pain and sorrow and tears into positive energy.
You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.
Cause I shouldn't feel this way... Catch me I'm falling for you... and I don't know what to do.
I'm not really good at hiding pain or taking something and transforming it into something good.
Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.
Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because its scary.
The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
All of my lyrics are based on the one thing that's never failed me, and that's the Word of God.
I love Sly Stone and James Brown and Stevie Wonder, and I want my music to reflect some of that.
You are who you are, there's nobody like you, and to try and be like someone else is just a lie.
My little dog, he did not get ill. It is so funny that people get ill on a boat and dogs do not.
People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.
A person who is true to himself likes and loves others for what they are and not what they have.
A man needs the feelings of kindness to think great than thinking of the greatness to feel good.
I know people I feel are extremely talented, but I don’t know that I’ve ever heard any geniuses.