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I don't allow the industry or anybody to put me in a box. I did that for a minute and I was like, 'I can't do this anymore.'
I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.
I'm convinced there are a lot of couples who have got together while listening to my music. My songs are not exactly unsexy.
We joke about it in the entertainment industry: Every actor wants to be a musician, and every musician wants to be an actor.
I've been compared to so many people - Streisand, Celine - it doesn't bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?
I'm not fake, and I don't want to mislead people about who I am. I can be serious, too, and I cry a lot. It's just who I am.
Societies have been conditioned to believe that entertainers are just that, but I refuse to be put into the box of a puppet.
The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.
I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.
I like to sew, and I am into bending metal and making industrial jewelry. I sew a lot of my own clothes and customize stuff.
jukeboxes, radio and television, going from dawn to dusk, help spread the poison of synthetic, artificial, rhythmical noise.
I'm never, never sure which way to go. I'm full of unsureness. That's been a habit for years. I never really want to commit.
Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow.
After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.
Not all the songs are real events, but I do write about stuff that is close to my heart and it comes out one way or another.
But I am weirdly healthy, so I don’t beat myself up about it—it wouldn’t help, and I don’t want to pass that on to my girls.
If they want to party and do all the things I say brought me sadness in my song, with my song as the soundtrack... so be it.
Sometimes you have to bite the bullet. Not only must you learn to accept their gaze with your eyes but also with your heart.
If you want to fly higher, first you have to spread your wings.. The world’s big and there are a lot of places you can fly^^
'Gimme a Break' ran for six years and gave me the kind of money and freedom that I'd dreamed would make me happy. It didn't.
I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.
When you play the 12-string guitar,you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.
Measuring Safety Performance by the number of injuries you have is like measuring parenting by the number of smacks you give
Some people go to Berlin to get more cutting edge; I went and started wearing lederhosen and going to visit baroque palaces.
I very much faced my mother's death with hard, arduous and time-consuming labor. The more I would do, the less I would feel.
Certainly in terms of my life - anybody's life - you go through death, childbirth and marriage, glory and defeat, and so on.
People are so opinionated about things, and they don't even know what they're talking about, or can't even do it themselves.
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions.
My son is an integral part of my life; the fact of life is that parents and children need you; wife doesn't really need you.
Getting up to dance to your own stuff looks pretty pretentious. And leaving the dancefloor when it comes on is just awkward.
I listen to Jay-Z, Nelly, Nas, Ludacris and all the young kids out there. I listen to them, and I have mad respect for them.
Bring me the head of Elton John . . . which is one instance in which meat would not be murder, if it were served on a plate.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
Oh yes, you can kick me And you can punch me And you can break my face But you won't change the way i feel 'cause i love you
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
I feel that sometimes we are so distracted by superficial things, we forget what really matters: cherishing those around us.
I think a lot of my dreams have come true, and my next dream is to have a No. 1 selling album. A Grammy-award-winning album.
There's nothing more addictive or incredible in life than reinventing yourself and allow yourself to be different every day.
'm the inspiration for picking it up off the floor after it fell off the stool and figuring out a way to make it still work.
There's an energy about Nashville that I love and I miss. And it's so awesome right now. It has a new energy that's so cool.
I'm taking my time trying to transition because the Aaron Carter you saw back then - now [I'm] a completely different person.
Hogslop is the real deal groovilicious honkin old-time string band. Guaranteed old-time awesomeness with these fellas around!
I've always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it's all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.
I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.
I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.
I've always loved aggressive, hard, noisy, yet melodic bands, and at the same time I've always loved 'Blue' by Joni Mitchell.
I'd actually like to make a country album one day. One of my idols is Neil Young, because he's kept himself from being bored.