Yuna Quotes
Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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To me, family is everything. I want children to realize how important their families are and what a support system a family is.
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It's healthy to have two or three weeks' gap between big releases.
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It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I realised there were no good role models for kids. Popeye eats spinach, but also smokes and hits people.
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It took me quite a long time to develop a voice, and now that I have it, I am not going to be silent.
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Instead of building walls, we should be building bridges.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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I've never looked at my Facebook page or my website, because I'm fundamentally an amateur.
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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Money has no moral opinions.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear?
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We thought it would do OK, but we weren't sure. We didn't have a crystal ball, and we didn't say, 'Oh yeah, it's a smash.' We liked the song but didn't know if it would be the best to debut the album with. But there is something special about the song. People caught onto it.
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I loved the idea of recording. The idea of sound-on-sound-recording captured me as a young kid, and once I realized what it was I had an epiphany. Before I was even playing the guitar, I would create these lists of how I would record things and overdub them, like Led Zeppelin song, 'I could put this guitar on this track...' and so on.
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I think it's great when people accuse me, almost always falsely, of promoting conspiracy theories, because that shows how effective I am at messaging and how effectively I can use social media.
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Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.
