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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!
I never felt like I wanted to have kids until I could be home and be a daddy, and those are the things that I didn't have.
Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.
The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.
There are many things I do for amusement, but for happiness I like to gather up my memories and go for a walk in the rain.
It finally happened. I got the GPS lady so confused, she said, "In one-quarter mile, make a legal stop and ask directions.
It pleases me to take amateur photographs of my garden, and it pleases my garden to make my photographs look professional.
It's a safe bet that someone who tells you you need to calm down has never actually seen you when you needed to calm down.
Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, said Browning, and so it has - extended by the length of an artist's brush.
More good has been accomplished by simple people seeking their own honest ends than by all the philanthropists in history.
If you listed all the reasons for your faith, and all the things that make you cry, it would be essentially the same list.
I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.
I have a lot of respect for all the artists I get compared to, even if, as an artist, you prefer to have your own identity.
I think what's wrong with too many people is they're too reserved. They're miserable, but they don't want to talk about it.
The mind may find unique ways to express what it conceives of reality, but reality remains unchanged by the mind's efforts.
I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.
I don't really care what people think, ... I just do my own thing. ... I like being loud and letting people know I'm there.
You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.
The passion for doing music, the passion that I have for going out and playing it live - my love for country music is back.
We just feel like we don't have the means, To rise above and beat it. So we keep waiting, Waiting on the world to change...
I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
I spent a lot of time star-gazing, writing, and learning languages when the other kids were doing cooler things in Detroit.
I think it's awesome to see people of all different ages from all kinds of backgrounds come together for the love of music.
Going into business for yourself, becoming an entrepreneur, is the modern-day equivalent of pioneering on the old frontier.
There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own.
After years of buying clothes I intend to diet into, I'll say this: the skeleton in my closet has some really nice outfits.
The trouble with not being into social networking is that people think you're anti-social when you're only anti-networking.
My health plan doesn't cover dental, so I enrolled my teeth as 32 dependents, each needing a complete physical once a year.
For me, personally, Detroit is a melting pot for everything. We get the best from the East Coast, West Coast and down South.
I want to show the world that if you want to be a bearded lady you are allowed to do it without being discriminated against.
But I would not refuse a meeting with Putin. I would like to spend a week with Putin, so that I could better understand him.
I love Kanye West. I think he's a visionary. He's one of those people for whom I separate his personality from his artistry.
The fact of picking up an instrument and writing a song and expressing yourself publicly has a powerful political dimension.
This indie rock stuff, I mean I like it, too - it pushes all my buttons: sex appeal, dissonance. It's emotive, disenchanted.
I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.
I'm glad I'm a woman; I'm glad I'm a rapper because I get to speak to these people who did not get spoken for in this genre.
It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.
My mom was always saying: 'Be whatever you want to be, but stick with it. Don't waver. Don't change who you are for anybody.
I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar.
To a small child, the perfect granddad is unafraid of big dogs and fierce storms but absolutely terrified of the word "boo."
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.
One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.
Someday a computer will give a wrong answer to spare someone's feelings, and man will have invented artificial intelligence.
You may not know it, but I was adopted as a baby by my wonderful parents, Allan and Margaret Atkins of Cumberland Gap, Tenn.
'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.
If you just focus on making singles, you lose the personality of the record. Because everything is not meant to go to radio.