Musician Quotes

Money, celebrity and power can be very intoxicating.

It's weird. Prior to having my first record, Corey Hart was just my name.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.

I needed to step away from music because the truth was I couldn't be the dad I wanted to be to my kids. My truth was that I could not reconcile the two worlds - the entertainment world and being the dad I wanted to be in the present. You can't substitute time, you just can't.

I can analyse the trajectory of my popularity and find out why the peak was a peak and the valley was a valley - grapple with it that way - but I prefer not to analyse it that much.

I became somewhat reclusive during a period of time in the '80s.

Along the beach I never collected shells from my father's shore.

Above these universal themes 'Truth Will Set U Free' is also a song composed for those who were born gay. I am a straight man so I do not profess to understand or know what a LGBT person experiences but I do recognize injustice when I see it.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.

I really, really like writing songs.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.

I feel like I have to have a voice.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.