With the R&B, gospel feel that 'Sparkle' has, that opens the door for my fans to be more accepting of that sound and also for me to try it.
Without sounding pretentious, it's nice to always be surrounded by creative people who inspire me and keep my levels of creativity charged.
It sounds really stupid, I hate making cosmic comments like this but, I just let it do what it wants to do.
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.
Yeah, I think the common denominator - and this is probably going to sound like Acting 101 - but the common denominator is belief in the character in the moment.
Reading the Gospels, without the personality of Jesus, is like watching television with the sound turned off.
I'd rather give up my ears than my eyes, which might sound unusual for a musician.
Women do not like CDs of live music. We only like the original recordings. If a song sounds different from the version we fell in love with, then it's awful.
As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
Yazoo was Vince's sound ultimately. At the time Vince and I got together he had only recorded one album with Depeche and Depeche were to go on to greater things.
I have been an XL fan of Devo since I was in high school in the 1970s. Their records only sound better with time.
Politicians have always been required to be fake, but now the career havoc wrought by a stray, flying sound bite means they have to sustain their fakeness all the time.
I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.
When I first sat down with my oncologist the day before Thanksgiving, and she told me I would need 8 rounds of chemo, one of my first questions admittedly was: 'Will I lose my hair?' It sounds shallow, I know, but it was a very scary image to me.
You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process.
Luigi: We shall call him... Zatarra. Edmond: Sounds fearsome. Luigi: It means, "driftwood."
Honey: You sound ghastly, like some 90-year-old woman.
[Marcel is beating up a sound technician] Shosanna Dreyfus: [brandishing an ax] Bring that fucker over here!
Batman: Bruce Wayne? Uh... who's that? Sounds like a cool guy.
Ellis: He's not dangerous. Neckbone: [sighs] Sounds like a shitload of state troopers thinks differently.
