Musician Quotes

The songs come along at their own pace when they are ready.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

It is setting goals and trying to be a business person, but at the same time not losing sight of who you are writing songs for and what your goals are as a songwriter. So believe me, if you think I've got it down I don't it is a constant struggle.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

I was probably the one who tattled on the class clown. To get in good with the teachers.

I was in a play with Julia Roberts and Paul Newman and Tony Randall.

I was a very, very serious child... I was valedictorian of my kindergarten and eighth-grade class.

At the concert I'm going to crown the best looking man, Mr. Tampa. Bald men definitely have an edge.

Well I don't want to talk about myself, that's so rude and egotistical.

It's been really fun to see with each album when I change to see the fans of the show emulate my style and with the first record a lot of the kids in the crowd were wearing neck ties like I was and now you'll see a lot of girls with pink hair. It's cool, it's actually really neat.

I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.

I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I could. I used to sing at my school. I was in musicals and then it kind of got to a point where I started to - wanted to do my own songs.

I lost my voice for the first time. I was so bummed out, but it happens to every singer at some point in their career. I don't think most people understand, but I sing every night and sometimes we do five shows in a row, which is really bad for your voice.

You get built up and put on a pedestal and then people want to bring you down. It can be hurtful. Some people try to make me look bad or not a nice person but it's completely false.

Well, a lot of people don't know this about me, but I'm actually shy around people I don't know. I would just say with my first concert, my first tour, I didn't really talk onstage. I was like, 'Thank you, I love you guys,' or whatever. But now I've just kind of learned to work a crowd.

On my first album I was wearing a lot of guys pants, baggy clothes and stuff like that. I was 17 and I was a little tomboy. And you would never see me wearing a dress or heels on my first record.

No one really knows what I'm really like, and you won't unless you spend a day with me, or if you're my friend. No one ever knows what anyone is really like. Read all the interviews you want on them, it's just the media talking and you can't really get to know someone that way, obviously.

I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like a 35-year-old. I have a house. I have a car. I have a steady job. I have a business, and I have to make serious decisions.

I was eating bad stuff. Lots of sugar and carbs, junk food all the time. It makes you very irritated.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

I have to fight to keep my image really me... I rejected some gorgeous publicity shots because they just didn't look like me.

I have always looked for ways to give back because I think it's a responsibility we all share.

I don't fight. I don't believe in it.

I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

I'm very comfortable with how I look. I always have been. I think I look pretty good. There's nothing I want to change. I'm pretty happy with what I've got.

I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.

Inspiration for my music just comes from, you know, my life experiences.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

I decorated my house like a medieval gothic castle, European-style. Chandeliers and red velvet curtains. My bedroom is pink and black, my bathroom is totally Hello Kitty, I have a massive pink couch and a big antique gold cross.

I don't believe war is a way to solve problems. I think it's wrong. I don't have respect for the people that made the decisions to go on with war. I don't have that much respect for Bush. He's about war, I'm not about war - a lot of people aren't about war.