Me Quotes
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If everything gets too serious for me on the album, I get kinda bored. I've got to have some kind of jovial things in there.
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I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
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For me, peace is a fundamental human right of every child; it is inevitable and divine.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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If you were to ask me what I want to do – I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference.
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I've never cackled with laughter at a single line I've ever written. None of it has given me pleasure.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.
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Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
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Motherhood has helped me to stop overanalyzing things. It's been liberating because I used to be somewhat neurotic. I attribute that to having something bigger than myself.
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I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I don't feel like sitting around doing nothing would benefit me.
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I just get focused on whatever is in front of me. When I was filming Crossroads, it had all my focus. Now I'm all focused on finishing my recording so I can get that out. It's just day by day.
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My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy & Me.'
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I grew up with horror. My dad loves movies, and he passed a lot of them on to me. There's something so fun about them.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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A lot of people don't like me.
