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Before I get out of bed, I am saying thank you. I know how important it is to be thankful.
Strictly has just given me a real zest for life. Life is so short. We should all grasp it.
I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.
A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.
I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.
Selfishness even binds many people, but blindly without having any liking for one another.
If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.
We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It's our basic human right.
I just loved working with George Benson, whom I very much enjoy musically and as a person.
Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
I would say the Go-Go's are pretty iconic but don't know if I'd refer to myself like that.
I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.
I would love to work with Paolo Nutini because he is so soulful and an amazing songwriter.
Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.
The truth is that in my job, becoming old and becoming extinct are one and the same thing.
Yeah, run if you want to. Time is the anchor, change is the constant, love is the trigger.
Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
In school that used to happen a lot: they'd get me to sing and then they'd hate me for it.
All I want to do is be normal. But really, it's other people who won't let me be that way.
I always wanted to have my own album recorded and released before I graduated high school.
Are you committed to your highest vision for your life or are you just satisfied to dream?
I really wanted to travel around the world, and give a strong hug to every fan of BIGBANG.
Respect your own creativity and respect the creativity and creative space of other people.
I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really.
I really think I want to live in a lot of places.I don't want possessions to hold me down.
When I was 13, I was just figuring out how to play 'Eruption,' poorly, by Eddie Van Halen.
I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.
I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
When you reach the top, you should remember to send the elevator back down for the others.
To sing is to bring to life; impossible if the words are mediocre, however good the music.
Since the beginning, it was just the same. The only difference, the crowds are bigger now.
There are too many people that depend on me. I'm too obligated. I'm in too far to get out.
I think it's important to have a sense of humor. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.
Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
I usually tell somebody if a song’s for them. I don’t always tell them if it’s about them.
I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
I'm not ashamed to dress "like a woman" because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman.
You know when pillowcases come out of the dryer and they get really wrinkled? I iron them.
It's always amazing when a fan will say you've helped them through some kind of adversity.
When everything is together - the band, me, the audience, it's boss! It's just like magic.
Pretending you are not in love with someone only delays the time of you getting over them.
I'm of the opinion that we're always on holy ground and some days it's just more apparent.