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I started out as a pianist and singer in gay and piano bars - they were the only places I could get a job singing show tunes.
In New York, they understood that my country was not a country, but winter. And that my road was not really a road, but snow.
Exploring many different avenues, especially setting new challenges, has always fueled my passion for learning something new.
Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.
I went vegan because it was a willpower challenge. I've been vegetarian, I've been pescetarian, and vegan was the next thing.
These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.
The only prejudice I've found anywhere in TV is in some advertising agencies, and there isn't so much prejudice as just fear.
Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.
You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing.
A song is like a picture of a bird in flight; the bird was moving before the picture was taken, and no doubt continued after.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
I think the rhythm is like the spine of the piece. If you change that, then the body that forms around it is changed as well.
There's a difference between making the music for a check vs. what you think you should be doing artistically and creatively.
Of course I treat myself every now and then. Once a month I might have pizza and red wine and maybe a dessert, but that's it.
As a working-class boy, golf was never really on my radar, and when I was growing up, Irish football was my sporting passion.
I really believe that whoever is doing something with a strong passion is very much important to me. I love people like that.
I never knew that the things I wanted to do would come this fast, but this is the route that God took me, and so I'm excited.
I don't think I ever modeled myself after a singer. I've more or less copied the styles of horn-tooters right from the start.
You can travel through literature, and you can expand your mind through literature. It's so cheap to buy that kind of ticket.
I'm not interested in thinking up the name of a band and a logo and all that. Been there, done that, sold a million T-shirts.
'Lucky Day' is what I would call the Shaggy roller-coaster ride. It takes you to different moods. I listen to music in moods.
Aye, I'm tellin' ye, happiness is one of the few things in this world that doubles every time you share it with someone else.
The X Factor' is great entertainment, but it doesn't prepare people for getting chewed up and spat out by the music industry.
I'm someone who has always been quite clear about what I like. In the studio, I'm not a control freak but I know what I want.
Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.
Unfortunately, I am not homosexual... In technical fact, I am humasexual. I am attracted to humans. But, of course, not many.
I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie.
I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becoming indie labels, anyway.
People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!
I would still be singing, because it's part of my heart and my soul, and it lifts me up. Find something you would do for free.
You don't have to push or pull or fight or win, the struggle is illusory. Sometimes or rather, all times, you just have to be.
The first time I remember going to Nashville was in 1971 back when 'Snowbird' was a hit and I performed at the Grand Ole Opry.
I'm not always a heartbroken guy. I like to laugh, act silly, dance. There are so many more colors to me. I really can be fun.
I'm a church boy. I got whuppin's. So I'm afraid at any moment my grandmother could just swing down from heaven with a switch.
I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!
I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.
My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.
Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.
In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.
I really, deeply believe that dreams do come true. Often, they might not come when you want them. They come in their own time.
The problem with fame is you no longer belong to you. You lose your persona and become the object of other people's obsession.
It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.
When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.