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I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.
Our planet is warming due to pollution from human activities. And a warming climate increases the likelihood of extreme weather.
Structures can be manipulated for ill as well, especially when people are dealing with issues of power, or control, or violence.
I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.
I do own CDs by Neil Young, Leonard Cohen, and Joni Mitchell, but I don't think of them as being major influences on my writing.
If it takes you a year to cut a record, I don't know, you need to find something else to do. It really shouldn't take that long.
Jimi Hendrix once said, 'You will never hear surf music again.' Well, tonight, you will hear 'serf' music again - S-E-R-F music.
I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably do make-up and beauty and hair and something creative like styling; I really enjoy it.
If you don't want to put on any makeup, try some fake eyelashes. They make your eyes pop and give you a little confidence boost.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
I think people have been really receptive to understanding that I've grown up and the music's going to sound a little different.
Sure, I've thought about retiring, but in my mind, if you can't sing the song anymore, change the song and sing a different one!
I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.
Every Christmas my hometown radio station would always play 'Christmas In Dixie' by Alabama. I always remember lovin' that song.
I've gone from singing to millions on a network show one day to singing to four people in a gymnasium in Casper, Wyo., the next.
I love Pink, and I love Christina Aguilera. Something about Christina always inspires me to do things that are really different.
It'll never get old to hear a song that I wrote on the radio or to hear what someone experienced when they heard a song I wrote.
I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much myself, but it's my job to make you cry.
You can't please everyone. There's always going to be someone disappointed, so you might as well make yourself happy and Be You.
My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.
A cousin of mine was a graphic designer, and he took me as a kid to see Flesh for Lulu and Social Distortion in 1988 in Chicago.
This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment, remember: we are eternal all this pain is an illusion.
Cry Baby is very close to my heart. I feel like I am her in a lot of ways. I want to continue making music from her perspective.
I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling.
I think if you buy the 'Christmas Queens 2' album, there will be songs you love and songs you hate, just like every other album.
I enjoyed a cartoon show called 'Recess' throughout my high school career. The target audience for that show was 8-11 years old.
When the Beatles came to America and took me off the map, I thought I would return the favor, and I moved the family to England!
If your neighbor looks at you like they don't enjoy the key you're singing in, look right back, bless them, and keep on singing.
I'm not making up my mind about anything right now. Things are happening so quickly for me, and I'm still in the thinking stage.
I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody.
Work in nightclubs was interesting. There were interesting people and places, but by and large, the commercial music experience.
With this darkness all around me, I like to be liked. In this emptiness and fear, I want to be wanted. Cause I love to be loved.
People ask how I learned to play bass with one hand. Well, with a face like mine, you learn to do a lot of things with one hand.
I'd like to do a pop album with an R and B influence. I definitely want to have those big ballads with the uptempo hits as well.
In every video that I have done, I have tried to have lead actresses of different variations from size and color to nationality.
The notes sound like they're coming from inside your mind... It was the closest thing to a psychedelic experience I've ever had.
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
Judging on 'The Voice' or the 'X Factor UK' would be great; that would be ideal, really. But I don't think it's going to happen.
When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'
Everyone comes back. It makes no difference how far we wander, we always have our country, our land, in our souls and our minds.
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
I want to carve out a serious period of time to focus on the next opera without any distractions. And to do that you need money.
As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.
But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.
I am completely grateful and pleased for the attention and the recognition I've received for playing the roles that I've played.
Hip-hop is still cool at a party. But to me, hip-hop has never been strictly a party; it is also there to elevate consciousness.
Writing songs about fancying people in dance clubs is all very well but it's not the be-all and end-all. There are other topics.
I don't enjoy trying things on, even though most times it's necessary. I tend to only shop online, which is so dangerous for me.
Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.