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I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.
I find cooking to be the one thing that relaxes me. I don't get to do it often . . .
Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.
We should take time out to really love; we should take time out to find out who we are.
Keeping grounded and keeping focused and keeping calm and thankful, that comes from God.
My career has been a gradual climb. I think that's part of the reason why I've had longevity.
Oasis are not just influenced by the Beatles; they actually take stuff. Then they get praised.
I mean, there are only so many notes. What makes something original is how you put it together.
I feel like I'm only in the beginning of my career. I've only made five albums. It's not a lot.
I couldn't tell you what I am going to do next 'cause I have no idea, but I am open to anything.
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea.
My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.
I think it'd be a real nightmare to put a record out and sell 20 million copies and then that's it.
I was always talking about peace and love, even when I was a kid. That's how I grew up in my family.
If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.
I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.
(On being asked if he preferred to be a rock god or sex god) I am neither. My favourite role is father.
I'm sure great scripts are hard to find, but I'm definitely open, and waiting to see what comes my way.
I was taught by my grandfather that anything that your mind can conceive, you can have. It's a reality.
It was amazing to me that, all of a sudden, I was hearing my music on the radio and coming out of cars.
I'm not one of those artists who refuses to play their hits. I find that ridiculous. Hits are a blessing.
I've been compared to hundreds of artists, which just goes to show you that I'm not any one thing at all.
One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.
It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music.
I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.
I never sit down to write or say, "Today, I have to record something." I wait to hear it and then I go for it.
A lot of my songs deal with spirituality and God, and I guess if you're in tune with that, you'll read into it.
I wanted to make something that sounded very pure, organic, and personal. I wanted to make music that was timeless.
My mother gave lots of good advice and had a lot to say. As you get older, you realize everything she said was true.
Today, people are more into the glitz and the glamour of everything. We don't even read the inside of records anymore.
It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.
There's nothing more that we love than having a close, personal, open relationship, and I believe that's what God wants.
People see my photos and think I labor over my image and I'm this cool, brooding artist. But I'm just having fun with it.
Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.
I am still into the people I listened to growing up, so I completely remember what is like to be a fan, I haven't changed.
I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.
I just feel so good; it feels like a very creative time for me. As far as my mind, spirit, and body, I've never felt better.
I bought [John Lennon's] 'Plastic Ono Band,' and I listened to it over and over for months. It's a monumental work of genius.
There's certain things in life that I love. One is architecture. And music, culture, food, people. New Orleans has all of that.
I want to do interiors, furniture. I want to do architecture, although I'm not an architect. Nor am I a trained interior designer.
I do my best to try to keep God with me on a personal level. It's my belief that God really wants a personal relationship with us.
The story that I wanna tell is pretty much about the way I grew up. Being bi-racial, growing up in a big city and being an artist.
I am not trying to change the world. I am just offering my gift that God gave me, and if somebody is moved by it, that's beautiful.
I'm a very open and loving person. My whole thing has been "let love rule" since my first album. I'm about unity and peace and God.
For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy.
Later on in life I was like, "Wow!" because that's exactly how it was. They don't care that you're mixed. They see you as one color.
I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old.
I always read the Capitol as f—ked up pansexuality, everybody is doing everybody. Back to Greek and Roman times! It’s all happening.