I never gave up on music, and I feel like music never gave up on me.
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
Ninety-nine percent of the music that was of any interest to me when I was growing up came out of the black community.
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.
I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
I wake up in the morning, walk downstairs, and just bang on the piano and write about what's going on in the world around me.
I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel like a billionaire without paying taxes.
I have worries and fears just like everybody else. But I have every reason to wake up each morning and be very happy.
When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl.
I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.
I'm definitely a morning person. I wake up dead happy, looking forward to having my cereal!
You don't learn style from watching people on a runway. Fashion happens every morning when you wake up.
It's interesting to wake up at 3 in the morning by someone saying they're a reporter and they want to know how you feel. I felt fine, but I said, 'Well, why do you ask?'
To simply wake up every morning a better person than when I went to bed.
I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
To wake up in the morning and just know what I'm going to wear, it helps me get out of the house faster.
Trees, though they are cut and loped, grow up again quickly, but if men are destroyed, it is not easy to get them again.
