Me Quotes
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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I've always felt very much from a mixed culture – mainly English and French, but also Nigerian, Thai, Mexican. Everything's had its influence on me.
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People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
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I don't have a set image. In fact, I would be curious to know how someone slots me.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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What really excites me in a project is when it goes in a way you haven't been before.
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I find the term 'workaholic' to be distasteful because it reminds me of the harried-looking lawyers I recall chained to their desks through nights and weekends during my lawyer days years ago.
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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
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It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
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In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.
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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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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
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Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.
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How in the world any one weighing 185 pounds can be cute is beyond me.
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I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.
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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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I happen to think that conservatism, when properly applied to the 21st century, could actually help everybody. And the message of Trump's campaign was obviously not super-appealing to Latino Americans, black Americans and so forth. That really bothered me.
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Kelly Clarkson definitely reminds me of Motown. She's pop, but she's also very, very soulful.
