Musician Quotes

I liked being a minor because you can't get into trouble. Now I just have to try and behave myself.

Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life.

To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean.

When I sing I have a lot of visions. Like what's happening now in my life.

When I sing I don't feel like it's me. I feel I am fabulous, like I'm 10 feet tall. I am the greatest. I am the strongest. I am Samson. I'm whoever I want to be.

When I got hoarse, the manager would say, 'Drink this. Joplin used to drink this,' and I used to say, 'Joplin? Joplin's dead.

There have been great things that happened to me.

Sometimes my mind boggles. It's so deep my mind actually boggles.

Somebody did complain to me and tell me that my clothes were so loud they couldn't hear me sing.

I've got a Grammy and Emmy, I'd like to have a Tony.

I've always wondered what it would be like if somebody from outer space landed with three heads. Then all of a sudden everybody else wouldn't look so bad, huh? Well, OK you're a little different from me but, hey, ya got one head.

I'm in the business where you get the business all the time.

I wanted to make the album I always needed to make. I had to say the things I never could.

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.

I absolutely refuse to reveal my age. What am I - a car?

Everything does go in a circle.

You can laugh when I talk, but not when I sing.

What, do you think that feminism means you hate men?

People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.

God has more important things to worry about than who I sleep with.

I get the greatest feeling when I'm singing. It's other-worldly. Your feet are anchored into the Earth and into this energy force that comes up through your feet and goes up the top of your head and maybe you're holding hands with the angels or the stars, I have no idea.

Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.

There are a lot of people who helped make Queen Latifah who she is today. I don't forget, but a lot of people do and get big heads.

My mom will make me walk the dogs or take out the trash when I go home.

I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.

I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

I lost relatives to AIDS, a couple of my closest cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high-school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?