#music

"The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art."

"Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you."

"I put the sing in single—especially when I’m in the shower. Does anybody have any requests they’d like to shout out while the water’s getting hot? As always, silence all cell phones during the duration of my performance."

"I live to inspire, not start the fire."

"My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world."

"I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do."

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language."

"I would love to make my music and be completely anonymous, but that doesn't work. You can't have success and be faceless."

"I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments."

"The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave."

"....Charles laughingly observed,'Gospel and the blues are really, if you break it down, almost the same thing. It's just a question of whether you're talkin' about a woman or God."

"To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it."

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

"Those guys who want to have the Mohawk...which, to me, is the new business casual."

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

"Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through."

"The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard."

"We are unraveling our navels so that we may ingest the sun. We are not afraid of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall guide us. We are determining the future at this very moment. We know that the heart is the philosopher's stone. Our music is our alchemy."

"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."

"Music is the language of the heart. It can only sing songs of love."