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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.
I've gone through a lot of stuff in my life so far. There are stories I haven't really been able to tell.
Information has become king, whereas wisdom should be king and there is a big difference between the two.
When I have the opportunity to work, I organize a whole party - like what you perhaps saw at the Grammys.
I've gone through many, many things. I tell you something, that if it doesn't kill you, you get stronger.
Music can speak louder than words, and I will use my music to speak out on behalf of children everywhere.
I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.
Give me a Sunday morning, that's full of grace, A simple life and I'll be okay, here in small town U.S.A.
The problem with working under an outside label is that your music never seems to reach the right people.
I am exceedingly lucky that my voice, along with perfect pitch and perfect rhythm, was given me at birth.
When a stray animal crosses your path, it may be as close to God as you're going to get in this lifetime.
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!
Sometimes when I look in the mirror, I see a child, then I look and see a woman who should be turning 60.
I think about dying a lot, every time I fall asleep on a train or a plane I expect to wake up to a crash!
Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.
Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.
Opera is credible drama now, and it costs less than going to a football match. What have you got to lose?
It's very hard for me to place myself alongside another artist. Everyone has something unique to express.
The women and the men are teachers and preachers in my family, and a little bit of both those fell on me.
Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.
Nothing is more rewarding than to take a song, create it out of thin air and then watch it affect people.
Just because my bank account hasn't swelled astronomically I don't consider myself any less of a success.
Part of the charm of what I do is the fact that it's completely unrelated to everything that came before.
People have always asked me, 'Haven't you wanted to sell out?', and it's like, who am I going to sell to?
I've been blessed to live my dream more than half my life, so I want help give that back to someone else.
As a performer, I want to hit the last row of the arena. I want to make big moves. I'm a spaz, naturally.
Touring with Blink helped introduce people to Alkaline Trio who otherwise wouldn't have ever heard of us.
I shopped at J. Crew in high school, I studied computer science. I was a nerd-nerd, now I'm a music-nerd.
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
Well, I got people that help me with the restaurant. I don't have to be at the restaurant 24 hours a day.
It took me a long time to stumble upon a sound, and I figured out I wanted to kinda sing rapper's lyrics.
I've spent my fortune, tarnished my public view and made myself the brunt of punch line after punch line.
November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.
My ancestors are all crazy. My great-great-granddad, he was the last man to live in a cave in Nottingham.
When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.
I am extremely grateful. And that brings me back to reality on the days I am complaining about something.
It started out slowly, it's coming on fast. I got a feeling it's gonna last. Timber, I'm falling in love.
So many bands are like, 'I'm real because I'm dirty.' If you have money for guitars, you can afford soap.
For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career.
I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
If there is a world here in a hundred years, it's going to be saved by tens of millions of little things.
My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia.
Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.
What intrigues me is that you get a good bunch of musicians together, and interesting things will happen.
My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.
'Black Ice Cream' is a salute to the ladies with Black Girl Magic who exude a powerful sexual confidence.
'Raining Diamonds' talks about knowing there's something better out there. You don't have to just settle.