Breakfast Club Quotes
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I'm always looking for something new: a new inspiration, a new philosophy, a new way to look at something, new talent.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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You realise that having a number one record and being loved and adored isn't the most important thing in the world. But at the same time, I don't have a problem with it. What I'm trying to say is, I'm not a reluctant pop star.
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It's smarter to look at portions than to count calories.
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When I left Michigan and I came to New York, that was my goal, to be a professional dancer. And I sort of fell into singing by accident in a way.
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Obviously, I feel a great sense of responsibility being a good parent and raising my children. I don't take that job very lightly. Who they are, what they become and what they contribute to the world is very important to me.
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don't know it.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Where you record is very important. It can't be too nice, it can't be too expensive, it can't have a view to an ocean or a field.
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Prince Charles is very relaxed at the table, throwing his salad around willy-nilly. I didn't find him stiff at all.
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Figure out who you are.
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You never know what the future brings.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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When I first moved to New York, I wanted to be a dancer. I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence. I never tapped into nightlife; all I knew was dancers. We went to bed early and got up early and went to free concerts at the Lincoln Center and Shakespeare in the Park.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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I'm still true to my Southern roots.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.