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It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
How often does a guy who lives and breathes baseball meet a woman who loves the game and understands it as well as he?
When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
Some guy said to me: Don't you think you're too old to sing rock n' roll? I said: You'd better check with Mick Jagger.
When you stop trying to find the right man and start becoming the right woman, the right man will find his way to you.
My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on; I’m walking all on my own.
Being a mother, singer and actress is a definite juggling act, but I don't think I would be comfortable any other way.
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
What other people think of me is becoming less and less important; what they think of Jesus because of me is critical.
I have a lot of variety on my iPod. Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, artists like that, but I also listen to hip-hop as well.
There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was right / Boys and Girls in America / Have such a sad time together.
My family is the treasure. I thank them heartily but I can't say this seeing them face to face since I'm too shy haha.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter, a major influence on my own music from the very start.
Smokey Robinson is one of my heroes as a singer and songwriter; a major influence on my own music from the very start.
A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.
I think that if my voice for some reason changes - because your voice does change - then it's time for me not to sing.
All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!
People have been so supportive of this career for so long, and they are still enjoying the music that I bring to them.
I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.
I love living in Utah. I was born here but raised in L.A., but we decided about 13, 14 years ago to come here to Utah.
I've been feeling everything. From hate to love. From love to lust. From lust to truth. I guess that's how I know you.
You ain't nothing but hound dog, cryin' all the time. You ain't never caught a rabbit and you ain't no friend of mine.
Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar.
When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.
When I finally got to 30, I'll admit that there was a little anxiety, but at the same time I actually really liked it.
The only thing left for Barack Obama to do is to work like a third world dictator and just put all these guys in jail.
I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what it is; I tend not to do that.
Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.
When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.
I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
Everybody's gone through some kind of struggle in their life, and I'd like to be the type of voice who talks about it.
ITV have been fantastic and I still have a good relationship with them, but I probably won't be back on 'Loose Women.'
My dad encouraged anything I wanted to do, especially music. Actually he drove me around to places where I could play.
This is my home. Home is where the disease is. As long as I stay in America, I'll never run out of subjects for songs.
I don't like my lipstick to be too perfect, so what I do is put color in the middle and then dab it with my fingertip.
Nobody realizes that I work 18 hours-a-day for a solid month to make that TV hour look like it's never been rehearsed!
I was painfully self-obsessed and self-aware. I wanted people to love me but at the same time I was terrified of them.
I think most people don't understand: I have nothing to do with that. I just open my mouth, and it comes out that way.
As long as those things are on vinyl or tape or what have you, the record companies are going to release them someday.
Your story matters, who you are matters, tonight matters, none of it is an accident. You were born for the blue skies.
Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading.
I started crying, because there's nothing like hearing that the artist who originally did the song likes your version.
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
I'm touring and I'm bored and it's an off day or I'm travelling and boom, there ya go, it's fun again cause I'm drunk.
I'm going to try to take a loving look at the situation and do what God gave me the ability to do, and He'll bless it.
I don’t want to hang on and Cry over something so little, Like a springtime illusion that’ll disappear after I wake up