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“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
“The star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.”
“I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.”
“No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.”
“I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.”
“My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o....”
“I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into ...”
“I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.”
“Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.”
“I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.”
“Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
“The last thing I wanted was to be with someone who's the same age as me and wanted the limelight, wanted the attention. There's lots of girls out there who do.”
“For me, your real age is not the age on your ID. That's just a date when you were born.”
“I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.”
“When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.”
“Around age 40 I put on twenty pounds. I had always had a perfect metabolism. But, my metabolism betrayed me as it does most people, except a very rare few who will always be thin.”
“I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.”
“I really don't get nervous when I perform -it's more of an exciting feeling than anything else. But put me in a classroom with kids my age and have me take a test and yeah, I'll be nervous!”
“To write a story about New York that only deals with people in your age and socioeconomic bracket, that feels dishonest to me. So much of New York comes from everyone bumping into each other.”
“I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some p...”
