Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
Ne-Yo
Quotes to Explore
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin
I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
Katee Sackhoff
Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
Gayle Forman
I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
H. P. Lovecraft
When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
Patti Smith
Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
Jay-Z
I quite clearly have made the right decision in my heart, retirement was the way.
Cathy Freeman
In Arizona, anyone over 18 can buy an assault rifle, at 21 you can get a pistol, and you can carry your gun, loaded or unloaded, concealed or openly, just about anywhere.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
I find the songs that have the most human components in production are the ones that will stand the test of time.
Ryan Tedder
OneRepublic
I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
Ne-Yo
