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A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.
I was always called a cry baby, and I was one. I cried a lot as a child. In fact, I still cry a few times a day. I'm still a cry baby.
I just wanted to make sure that God's hand was upon it, especially for a band that always stood for God's message; that was important.
I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.
My earliest musical memory is of my older sister playing me Nirvana's 'Nevermind' on headphones in the back of the car on a road trip.
I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
Health and beauty is not just about what you apply. If you don't have it together on the inside, then nothing else is going to matter.
I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.
There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
When you hear my records today hear a vanilla sounding artist with no black inflection, although I was trying to imitate what I heard.
I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
Throughout history the leaders of the countries have been very particular about what songs should be sung. We know the power of songs.
Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.
I enjoy being slept on. It's like being on the verge of a cult movement. But making the underground-to-aboveground transition is cool.
When you talk about the exchange of energy between performer and audience and audience and performer, I hope that I'm one of the best.
Social networks didn't exist when I started. Twitter and Facebook didn't exist. It was all about MySpace when I first got in the game.
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
I remember Robert Plant coming backstage after the first show saying, 'Hey, boys, I should be opening for you.' That felt pretty good.
But I also live to perform and I've been performing my whole life, whether it's been in sports or you know in band or with my singing.
Wouldn't Ponochio II be a great musical, now that he has to face the real world and get a wife... job. Now he wants to be a toy again.
I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?
I don't want to hold you and feel so helpless I don't want to smell you and lose my senses And smile in slow motion With eyes in love.
I'm not going to lie: I still have days when I walk by the mirror on my way to the shower and think, 'Oh God, I didn't just see that!'
Music is my happiness, my joy, and when my body wasn't right I couldn't get into my music without being healed, without being healthy.
I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets. Have four pints one night, be healthy the next.
Lots of people make the stage and it can seem very violent and over the top, but it's not really. It's always a kind of gentle ballet.
Little girls think it's necessary to put all their business on MySpace and Facebook, and I think it's a shame...I'm all about mystery.
I saw her do 'Different Drum' and thought, that's what I'm gonna do. I don't look that good in cut-offs, but that's what I'm gonna do.
I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.
If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.
People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.
I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
I'm infamous, a joke. It doesn't make me feel good, because I'm a genuine person, but I don't let it get to me, because I am who I am.
By the time you finish touring the record, everything that's exciting to me is what's ahead of me. I want to write the next paragraph.
Yara: Youre a great warrior. I saw the bodies above your gates. Which one gave you the tougher fight, the cripple or the six year old?
My drummer, bass player, and guitar player sing backgrounds. They play and sing. I can sing all the harmonies, but I can't do it alone.
It is a very serious consideration for a lyricist to step in there and suggest the meaning to a song. The music is speaking for itself.
If anyone hits me, they can expect to be hit back, and harder. I never turn the other cheek because in my experience that doesn't work.
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.
The challenge is to just focus on what's actually happening, focus on the people who get it, and focus on the people who are listening.
If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nail biters.
A lot of people want to put you in a slot. They want to categorize you. So I fought that, because I liked all different kinds of music.
I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.
Be your own artist, and always be confident in what youre doing. If youre not going to be confident, you might as well not be doing it.
If I made a mistake in singing a song or in the script, I could have some fun with it, then retain any of the fun that sounded amusing.
My mother was the only one who encouraged and inspired me for singing. She was singing all the time in the house, playing records also.
A lot of bands live and breathe out of hotels. I just happen to be the one that lives on my bus. I have camped and RVed my entire life.
I think some people don't even know what they're talking about, and they just start talking with an opinion, not even asking questions.
Now and forever, I'll remember all the promises still unbroken and think about all the words between us that never needed to be spoken.