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I've been in situations before where something was going on, and that's the only way you can kinda cope with it is to write about it.
Main thing, really, is I write songs the way I wanna hear them and the way I think the people that come to our shows wanna hear them.
It's not just music. To me, it's songwriting more than anything. A lot of people say it's expression, but to me, it's more than that.
My religion is my whole life. I love sharing it with people and clearing up any misunderstandings people might have about our Church.
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.
I am a private person, but I will reveal this about myself: if you start massaging my shoulders, don't expect me to tell you to stop.
The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.
There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination.
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
I am a gay, Christian, farm girl from Kansas who sang Country Music and I did the very best I could do - to know God and to share God.
Where there's compassion, no heirarchy can exist. Where men are allowed to create themselves as equals, evil cannot thrive or survive.
If you date a musician, you're never, ever really gonna be first either. You're gonna be right behind the music and maybe right close.
My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little I think that's where the tie comes from.
I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
I've dated all kinds of guys and didn't know who I'd end up with. But I kind of assumed it would be someone more like my dad than not.
If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.
In a household of toddlers and pets, we discover this rule of thumb about happy families - that they are least two-thirds incontinent.
Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.
There is a time early in life when there seem to be countless reasons for happiness, and then you discover your mom is making them up.
I hate my birthday. I don't like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better.
I'm always drawing, so Draw Something is a cool game to play against your friends when you're bored and sat chilling out and relaxing.
Yes there's a lady that stands in a harbor for what we believe. And there's a bell that still echoes the price that it cost to be free.
I just wanted to do something that had some meaning that I can look back and be proud of, that my family can look back and be proud of.
I'm old school. We're from a small town in Georgia, and I think if we do pictures before the wedding, I think I'm gonna be blindfolded.
My chains are gone I've been set free My God, my Savior has ransomed me And like a flood His mercy reigns Unending love, amazing grace!
It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
I'll stand beside you through the years, you'll only cry those happy tears. And though I'll make mistakes, I'll never break your heart.
There'll be two dates on your tombstone and all your friends will read 'em but all that's gonna matter is that little dash between 'em.
There is an uninformed myth circulating just now that makes dubstep way too important in the musical universe - don't believe the hype.
I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.
Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.
I don't think people understand how stressful it is to explain what's going on in your head when you don't even understand it yourself.
CAN'T TAN PON IT LONG.....NAW EAT NO YAM...NO STEAM FISH....NOR NO GREEN BANANA BUT DOWN IN JAMAICA WE GIVE IT TO YOU HOT LIKE A SAUNA.
For me, I write some songs that are really important to me, and I've got some feedback where some of them help folks and inspire people.
When I picture England, I picture little gardens and beautiful yards. I don't really like cities; I like to go and see things like that.
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
I put 'Ghost' online hoping to make a couple hundred bucks, but then the next day, I took meetings with five different record companies.
Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.
I think the best thing about being James Brown is looking at my little son. Hopefully I can make my son a role model to a lot of people.
When other people reject positive changes you make for yourself, there is always some nerve to get to the root of in those other people.
I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.
Burnin marijuana pon di corner, It keep me calmer, It mek me smarter. Burnin pon di highway, its the highest grade, gettin into my head.
To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.
A cat, after being scolded, goes about its business. A dog slinks off into a corner and pretends to be doing a serious self-reappraisal.
There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.
I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.