First of all, I love singing. I mean, I get out of bed and I sing. I can't help it.
And now I have a big house, nice clothes and I travel in first class and I love it, so maybe it's time to enjoy being a star.
I love football so when I finish playing I would like to still be involved in it somehow and a manager would be my first choice.
Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.
When I was first aware that I couldn't read music I didn't know I couldn't read because I could play the music that was in front of me.
I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.
When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do.
In the end, the sign of Aretha Franklin's artistry is that she always leaves her mark - first, on the music, then on us.
I've written poetry since I was in the first grade, and it wasn't until I was a little bit older that I realized poetry could be put to music and become a song.
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me.
My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.
First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.
I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.
Miami is a really special place for me, particularly in the U.S. It was one of the first places in the country to really embrace dance music, and I've been going there for many, many years.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out.
I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.
I first wanted to be a psychiatrist. I decided against that in medical school when I discovered that psychiatrists didn't, in reality, do what they did on TV.
I'm very neurotic about shaving. I shave first thing in the morning before a shoot, and if I have dinner that night, I have to shave again.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
First, women are more likely to live in poverty during their retirement years than are men.
