I came up during that time when music, to me, was really music. It wasn't about talking about a woman and calling them a derogatory name or something like that. It was real music.
There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.
I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.
I grew up in an eclectic house where people were listening to all types of different music. I also think being educated, eloquent and knowing how to talk for yourself in the industry makes you go a long way.
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
As a mom, you worry about protecting your kid. But there are extra added layers of fears when you're talking about a kid with autism or who has some special needs issue.
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it - I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
We are talking about someone who has lived. It must be honored in every respect. The fictional can take any kind of channel - according to the actor's marriage to the character.
For years everyone looked toward the demise of radio when television came along. Before that, they thought talking movies might eliminate radio as well. But radio just keeps getting stronger.
Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.
I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
What I find daunting always is to stand on a stage and talk to people, whether they agree with me or not.
You should not quarrel with your neighbour, for he will remain where he is, but your high handedness will become the talk of the people.
When I rap, it's just an extension of how I speak, and that's how I talk. If you don't like it, don't listen.
