I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

Everyday I strive to, at least, recognise my short-comings and the things I have to do to be the best person that I can possibly be.

Vocal study before age 20 is likely to be injurious, though some survive it in the hands of very careful and understanding teachers.

I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.

I can't imagine ever doing anything else with my life. It's definitely a challenge but when you accomplish something it feels great!

A man of substance should trust very carefully an online networking friend whose shared images are not often palatable to his taste.

To know the true nature of a person unknown, just see closely and correctly the character of known people who truly like him or her.

Judy Garland is a singer with a capital S. And talk about soul. This woman was soul personified. Judy Garland is a class by herself.

I've done the Kennedy Center many times. I've sang for Marian Anderson. I've sang for Marion Williams. I've sang for Lionel Hampton.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

Oh my love, it's you that I dream of Oh my love, since that day Somewhere in my heart I'm always Dancing with you in the summer rain

I have an original voice. It may not be the best voice, but it's distinct, and I think that's what has carried me through the years.

Once or twice I`ve been described as a light comedian. I consider this the most accurate description of my abilities I`ve ever seen.

If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am.

When I tour with the new album, I still do the classics, and I love the atmosphere it creates with the whole audience singing along.

I wish to begin again on a daily basis. To be born again every day is something that I try to do. And I'm deadly serious about that.

I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

90%, 100% are going there to hear the singing. The story is another thing. Nobody's interested in the story. Happiness is happiness.

The downside of videos is that it will put my vision in front of other people, so they might not get the chance to create their own.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family.

I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.

You can't just sit around and watch life pass you by. You have to keep dreaming. Sonny taught me that, and I intend to do him proud.

I can't listen to my own voice, I don't like it. You see all your mistakes when you hear your voice. You see all your imperfections.

To be honest with you, I dont male-bash. I dont believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.

I am so grateful to God for giving me the gift of 48 years with my daughter. And I accept that He knew when it was time to take her.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

Country music is some of the best-written music in the world, so yeah, one day, I would keep my mind open to doing a country record.

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's just... that's just telling yourself a lie.

You can be the most artistically perfect performer in the world, but an audience is like a broad - if you're indifferent, Endsville.

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

It seems no matter what you say and how politically correctly and carefully you say it, you offend someone. Or at least I always do.

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

It's more fun to look at an old picture of me than it is to look at a new one sometimes. Although, I still wear a dress pretty well.

And if somebody's going to produce me, they should be producing my sound for me. And that's something I have to come up with myself.

'She's Country' obviously changed a lot of things for us and pretty much, I think, doubled our crowd size in just a few months time.

People who love our record love us even more when they hear us live?playing live is what it is all about and that is our main focus.

You can spend the money on new housing for poor people and the homeless, or you can spend it on a football stadium or a golf course.

My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!

SNSD is a group of 9 girl female students. We’re pretty one by one as well,but its when we’re all together that we can really shine.

I always wanted to be an artist; being a songwriter for myself was always a must but being a songwriter for others has been a bonus.

Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family - plus, I used to play sports - so I'm sure our son will develop athletic ability.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly finite, card game. Image combinations, permutations, comprise the world game.

I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.

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