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When I do something, I do it all the way. I've been in show business so many years. I've achieved a lot of things.
I just get really bored with sticking to the norm and having the proper conservative image. That's just so not me.
I am falling apart. My hand is falling apart. I can't shake hands. I had arthritis, and I had an operation for it.
I'm always good mates with everyone and stay on the good side of people. I never let any bad blood between anyone.
I feel like at 18, you're half of someone else, as opposed to all of yourself. You're still figuring yourself out.
I've grown up listening to Jack Johnson and John Mayer. But I also love to groove on stage like Justin Timberlake.
I like to do romantic things in New York. I have a bunch of restaurants that I love to go to and things like that.
There were a lot of bad relationships that got very convoluted up at Columbia with me, what they expected from me.
For me, God's country is sirens and subways and all kinds of ethnic groups trying to cross the street all at once.
I couldn't wait to get out of school in junior high to get with Willie Green to pick up some of the riffs he knew.
What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you.
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
Don't confuse my personality with my attitude. My personality is who I am, and my attitude depends on who you are.
A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
Some people are both genders. I think you just come out the way you come out, and you have to embrace it honestly.
I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
My husband is very supportive and is there for the kids, especially when I'm in projects such as The Color Purple.
If people want new music then they are going to have to figure out a way to be patrons of the arts. And they will.
How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?
I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway.
Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship.
I just love making music and entertaining. I really do live for this culture. I don't think about the other stuff.
The thing that I did not like about being signed to a label was I unable to have control over what I wanted to do.
I'm all about risque - I love that stuff. I love to be creative - that's what the entertainment business is about.
You may not always end up where you thought you were going, But you will always end up where you were meant to be.
We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.
I have the happiest, most confident babies, and I know it's because they feel that strong love from their parents.
I do voices. I can sound like a man or cartoon character. I also have very believable Spanish and English accents.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
You gotta try your luck at least once a day, because you could be going around lucky all day and not even know it.
To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.
I like to use effects, but a lot of the time I just can't deal with these tracks with all these artificial sounds.
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.
My mom and dad always tried to make Christmas special for us. We were poor, but it's funny because we had no idea.
Each person's voice is very different, so you need to find what works for you. Make sure you keep to your routine.
My challenge is, do not run away from the hard questions. Truly ask yourself what's worth living for in this life.
Eventually everything fails me, but when I look at the sunset or the sky, I'm reminded what it's like to be alive.
I love Tennessee, but they don't have the pine trees and the sandy soil and the black water that I grew up around.
Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.
A circumstance that I was dealing with when recording my second album was I was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
Dress how you feel and love what you wear because at the end of the day you have got to wear and feel great in it.
They're still building and testing / But what can we do / Condemning the seas and the land and the trees to a tomb
Gardening is not something to get on your high horse about or be overwhelmed by. Either you enjoy it or you don't.
I got to see Linda's [Hart] live when it first came on Broadway. I just loved her. I've always been a fan of hers.
At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.
A lot of people talk, but they don't say anything. And people listen, and they don't absorb anything of substance.