Usher Quotes
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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No one expected me to become a champion.
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I'm usually late to the game on shows and watch them after they've aired. But I love 'House of Cards,' 'The Killing,' 'Orange Is the New Black,' loved 'True Detective,' and 'Arrested Development' when it was on. Also 'The Wire,' though I was way late to the game on that.
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An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.
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For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I never really wanted kids. I didn't not want them, but motherhood just wasn't something that pulled at me.
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Young kids should be doing music that has shock value. They'll grow out of it.
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You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
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The only way you know what it is to be a boxer is to be one.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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I've dreamed of being on the road, traveling and touring, for as long as I've been into doing music. It's what I live for. I just wanna be Willie Nelson.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I'm not the best singer in the world, but the albums have always been personal. They're stories about me and what I'm going through.
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I wish I had seen some women directing before - that would have given me the idea of who I was.
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My boy cousins used to sit my older brother and me down and take us through a film-studies course. It included 'Tremors', 'The Goonies', and, of course, 'Star Wars'. That was when it began: sitting cross-legged watching as the opening crawl goes up the screen.
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I like finding that common point between another song and my music. It's like between people; you can be of religion or another, from this country or from another country, but we're all basically the same. It's just the same with songs.
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A dreamer, a good man, a kind man who cared less for his plan than for the people in it.
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I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better - it's the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished.
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If I'm going to get hit, why let the guy who's going to hit me get the easiest and best shot? I explode into the guy who's trying to tackle me.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
