I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.
Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year.
There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns.
I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
I'm actually loving the soundtrack to 'The Secret Circle' that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.
I see dancehall reggae and hip-hop as fused together, When I was a kid, they were the two kinds of music that spoke to me and said 'Move!'
Day and night cannot dwell together. The Red Man has ever fled the approach of the White Man, as the morning mist flees before the morning sun.
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.
I find it hard to take rock groups very seriously or treat them with respect. There is something absurd about these gloomy young men getting together and banging away.
I was imagining films in my head and trying to gather friends together to make movies since I was a kid. I tried to do comedy skits and a horror film.
I like smart movies about smart people, and enjoy it when most of the facts are on the table and we can contemplate them together.
The Beatles will never get back together and David Lee Roth will never again sing with Van Halen.
Together we can remind them there are no excuses to sit back and watch the cycle of extreme poverty continue.
Words are a puzzle; put them together the right way and you get something beautiful.
I keep lip gloss everywhere. It always makes me feel like I am slightly put together.
Wear a belt! It's an easy way to pull together your outfit. Just be sure to match it to your shoes.
Statement earrings and statement necklaces each deserve their own moment. I never wear the two together; it looks overdone.
Our relationships, relationships between adults, how all those pieces fit together - that's the most complicated thing we all face.
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning.
