Musician Quotes

I started working out with a trainer and I immediately saw results.

I smoked some pot as a kid, but I just never did drugs.

I just try to get out of my own way because if anyone is their own worst enemy, it's usually you.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

By the second tour I had rice cakes and hummus with me, and I was jumping rope in my room.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

It's almost like, it's often the bad recording quality of things which makes them interesting.

I wanted something that had the feel of a complete band and a variety of instrument. Apart from doing the album for musical satisfaction, I felt it was an important statement for other women - showing you don't have to rely on other people to do things for you.

I think cat's are fantastic.

I find it hard to imagine how someone listens to my stuff, or views what I do, or me, or anything.

I don't really feel part of any particular movement.

I want to suggest a feeling. It's ridiculous to assume you can state an opinion. Somebody else can never relate to the lyric in the same way because their whole experience is different. You can only suggest, then people add their own history and experience to the lyrics.

I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.

Our championship committee pledged to review entry conditions and to assess how women golfers might compete on equal terms with men for a place in the Open.

It is no secret that the Golf Foundation has had its difficulties.

I know what I've done for music, but don't call me a legend. Just call me Miles Davis.

You can dominate a game if you dominate on the line... We're just going to have to go out there and work hard and blow people off the ball, and let our runners do what they do best.

It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it.

I'll play it and tell you what it is later.

I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.

For me, music and life are all about style.

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.