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I'm very sensitive. I remember, as a kid at school, if someone in the classroom was sad or angry, it could have a great impact on me.
I want people to remember ABBA as we were. I don't think that four geriatrics wheeled on stage is what we should leave as our legacy.
I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out.
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.
I don't want to be in my 'interview zone' mode. I've been doing a lot of interviews and I'm very self-aware of how I'm coming across.
It's still the same old story, A fight for love and glory, A case of do or die! The world will always welcome lovers As time goes by.
Any time somebody is into your band that's a good thing. And if they're in a really cool, really popular band, that's a better thing.
I still have a lot of faith that there's very few people who are savvy enough to actually produce a good sounding copy of the record.
I guess I don't think there's any reason to feel guilty about having joy in your life, regardless of how bad things are in the world.
Happiness is just a great equalizer. It's like water. You pour happiness liberally and all sorts of great things are going to happen.
I don't think people are going to talk in the future. They're going to communicate through eye contact, body language, emojis, signs.
I really liked one girl and asked her out 22 times, but she always said no. Finally I sang to her, and she said she'd go out with me.
The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.
There's positive attention and there's negative attention - negative attention is easy, positive attention requires actual hard work.
What makes a great song - you dont put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
I'm very, very suspicious of anybody that finds a belief system that they feel can explain it all, for themselves or for anybody else.
If I do become more successful, either as a producer or a rapper, I'm going to do everything I can to help whoever I can on the label.
You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, 'This is wrong.'
Talkin', talkin, talkin', talk. Baby, let's just knock it off. They don't know what we been through. They don't know 'bout me and you.
I love [Kim Kardashian] nude selfies. Like, I love the ones from the side, the back ones, and the front. I just love seeing her naked.
One girl was the inspiration for me singing 'Cry Me A River' on 'The X Factor.' That was my payback to her because she was unfaithful.
With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing.
It's always my mission to try to do something that hasn't been done before, whether that's musically, lyrically or in terms of mixing.
Just because you listen to The National, Spotify might tell you that you want to listen to The Lumineers' music. Well, maybe you don't.
The Mall Of America, outside Minneapolis, is just a mall. Yeah, it's big. So, like, instead of your typical 12 Starbucks, there are 30.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
It is very important that the world know that there have been 500 years of peaceful coexistence in Turkey between the Jews and Moslems.
I try not to mix the politics as much with the band, per se, because my political views are my own; they're not necessarily the band's.
What makes a great song - you don't put it into words. You feel it. The perfect lyric. The perfect melody. It makes you feel something.
It was really cool being out on the road and doing school with my tutor over Skype or on the phone, but it can definitely be difficult.
I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.
I like to express myself creatively and it doesn't matter the medium. Whatever medium I choose at that moment, whatever works the best.
I don't think I came to music. I think music came to me - or was already embedded when I came into this sphere, this realm, this Earth.
I'm talkin' about us, the new slaves, the people who love fashion. I'm talking about us, you know? 'Cause I'm a slave to it. I love it.
I knew when I wrote the line “light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson” [from the song “Slow Jamz"] I was going to be a big star.
When I think of competition it's like I try to create against the past. I think about Michelangelo and Picasso, you know, the pyramids.
I started in the music business I was first introduced to 1650 Broadway, uh, which was in reality where everything happened in the '60s.
Singing always came naturally but the writing side is something I have always had to work hard at to get from good songs to great songs.
What really swings is the music of the United States, Cuba, the Caribbean and vicinity, and, of course, Brazil. The rest is all waltzes.
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom of speech.
I've been really lucky. People have been nice to me on the internet. That's the reason why I couldn't figure out what was wrong with me.
I do know that on my mom's side, my uncle sang and had a gospel group. He also had a radio show he would do on Sundays with his quartet.
I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.
What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.
I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.
It's really exciting working with a new band when you feel like you hit something that's great, and you helped them bring something out.
Believe me when I say that some of the most amazing music in history was made on equipment that's not as good as what you own right now.
I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this water bottle.
I specifically ordered Persian rugs with cherub imagery!!! What do I have to do to get a simple Persian rug with cherub imagery uuuuugh.