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I want to build a fanbase. I want people to like my albums even more so than singles.
Obviously there are a lot of 12-year-olds over in America who are incredible singers.
When we are young we believe to be adults; when we are adults we believe to be young.
I'd like to have mass appeal, but not at the expense of what I am and what I do best.
I think underneath it all [in the Big Funk] was a little bit of a Europeanness in it.
It's the refuge for the mentally deficient. It's made by dull people for dull people.
I can chase you, and I can catch you, but there is nothing I can do to make you mine.
I know by now you think I should have straightened myself out - Thank you, drop dead!
Love is only one fine star away, even though the living is sometimes laced with lies.
I want to make an album with just great beats and big vocals and just amazing lyrics.
It's every man for himself, every woman, every child. A new breed ferocious and wild.
On the third day in India, I realized people were not suffering as much as I thought.
Now I'm making a comeback into the industry. Everyone is receiving me with open arms.
When you have fans telling you their stories it makes you feel like you're not alone.
If I know what's true in my heart and my soul, then what people say can't shape that.
The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.
I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.
It's rare to see a person of colour in a lead role. It does matter to a lot of people.
I try to be feminist in, like, I love myself and I don't need someone else's approval.
I like to think of myself as being fashion-conscious without being a slave to fashion.
The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them.
Memories don’t fade, it is just we who start overlooking the things once done or said.
I'm precise. I think in proportions. I play games with numbers, and I proportionalise.
I'm never gonna stop the rain by complaining, because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.
I want my fans to understand that what you put into the universe is what you get back.
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
When Byrd came out of there, he had written a lot things while he was in the hospital.
I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
A little wine sometimes, that's all. Spirits (are) bad. Alcohol wrong. Herb does grow.
As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.
I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Whether its active rock, pop, country, hip-hop - I love music; it's therapeutic to me.
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
Way over yonder is a place I have seen In a garden of wisdom from some long ago dream.
I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.
On her baby: He's 16 months old and he eats soap and paper. What's going on with kids?
I was never afraid of anything because I never hurt anyone. I was always an old drunk.
Meryl Streep is an acting machine in the same sense that a shark is a killing machine.
I don't like Bush. I don't trust him. I don't like his record. He's stupid. He's lazy.
My passion lies with whatever I'm doing at the time... I only see what is front of me.
After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes.
We should not clap our hands and mourn, for he is out of trouble. You are still in it.
I don't know what my life would have been like if I'd never gotten into show business.
I don't think getting in and out of a limousine has anything to do with being an icon.