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I can be vilified. I can be misunderstood. I didn't come here to be liked. I came here to make a difference.
I woke up early this mornin' with a new state of mind/ A creative way to rhyme without usin' knives and guns
Got a light skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson, Got a dark skinned friend, look like Michael Jackson.
And wouldn't change by the change, or the game, or the fame, when he came, in the game, he made his own name
Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car.
It's funny because I've made a living off of words, but words get in the way of what you really want to say.
Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.
And as an afterthought, this too must be told: Some people have taken pure bullshit and turned it into gold.
I'm always open to new stuff. I don't sit and try to figure out what to do, I just wait for an idea to come.
Tin soldiers and Nixon coming, We're finally on our own. This summer I hear the drumming, Four dead in Ohio.
As I got older, I realised fake tan was rather messy and I wanted to look cleaner, classier and more demure.
I think if you're happy and you're a nice person and you have a nice personality that always shines through.
Song-writing in general, and vocally I've learnt a lot about myself. I want to get better and keep learning.
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
If you'd done a good job you'd just step back and let all these different chemistries interact and let it go.
Playing to bigger audiences at festivals got me in the mindset of writing music that I would sing to a crowd.
I'm falling into you This dream could come true And it feels so good falling into you from If You Asked Me To
I think my music is a lot different than what is already out there and people will be really attracted to it.
Rudolph, the red-nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw him, you would even say it glows.
Criticism can bother you, but you should be more bothered if there’s no criticism. That means you’re too safe
Well, I just don't want to talk to America about my family. Like, this is my baby. This isn't America's baby.
Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time!
Don't let it bring you down. It's only castles burning, find someone who's turning, and you will come around.
I love it when people yell at me about the environment and then I tell 'em I'm burning 90% cleaner than them.
We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.
That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.
I think that's the role of an artist, right? To touch someone and make us stretch out just a little bit more.
In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.
Because of who I am, and how open I am, there's something inherently political about just writing love songs.
I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.
In promotional mode, every day is a series of decisions. You can easily fill up your day with checklist stuff.
I believe it to my soul that you're the devil in nylon hose, for the harder I worker the faster my money goes.
No one goes to BrooklynVegan to read about content, they just go for drama. It's a tabloid, the scum of indie.
Because I'm quiet, people think I'm really cold, or rude, or snobby. But I'm literally scared to talk to them.
All of my favorite records have vocals high in the mix, even if it's music that wasn't necessarily mainstream.
Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.
I am a Barack Obama fan from head-to-toe - always have been. He's not perfect; nobody is going to be that way.
I gotta new strategy it's called no strategy. And I gotta way to sell more music its called make better music.
Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.
The amount of people who talk about guns, versus who actually uses them, is not even close in this millennium.
I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.
Personally, the worst thing a boy can do to a girl is to ignore her while she's loving him with all her heart.
If you took music out of my life, I don't know what I'd do. It's the one thing that I have a real passion for.
I sit down and create atmospheres, start playing guitar or piano and just sing whatever comes out of my mouth.
Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement.
It's brilliant to me, I absolutely love having red hair. I love being ginger and I love my specific colouring.
We have so many talented writers. Companies need to understand that smaller writers also need to be supported.
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.