Rachel Platten
Related BRYSON TILLER I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think ... JAKOB DYLAN AURORA NICHOLSON BAKER GWEN STEFANI PINK I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,'... DICKEY BETTS I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my s... AYUMI HAMASAKI CHELSEA LEYLAND Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I&#... MAXWELL That's one of my problems is that there are so many songs to sing that I sort of get indecisive ... ALISON ELLIOTT Actually, the funny thing is, after all these years, I've got all these new songs to learn for t... LESLEY GORE I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I'... VALERIA GOLINO LOUIS TOMLINSON DIERKS BENTLEY BEAU BRIDGES RICKI-LEE COULTER COREY TAYLOR DR. DRE ALI LANDRY If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of makin... AUSTIN CARLILE Whenever we do stuff with Die Antwoord, it's kind of like... I made a lot of music before this g... WATKIN TUDOR JONES If you put all the songs together that I've written on band records, and put it up next to my so... JAMES IHA I went from a playing in a bar on a bar stool for free beer and tip money, where people weren't ... JAKE OWEN JAMILA WOODS LUKE BRYAN KATY PERRY CAROLINE SHAW I think a lot of people think that my parents' deaths is why I write such sad songs, but that... SHELBY LYNNE TINY TIM I would enjoy venturing into music, as I do write songs and compose music! And, of course, dance, rh... JIAH KHAN SOPHIA BUSH TOM PETTY TOM PETTY Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE I do gravitate towards the sad songs because I find them to be more of a challenge for me from a wri... LUKE COMBS I'm really an inner spirit that only makes itself known through the music. A lot of people think... FAITH EVANS I hope these songs impact peoples lives in the positive, make people think about love. If people c... KIRK WHALUM DARLENE LOVE ADELE STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. JENNIFER LOPEZ MICHELLE OBAMA ARMAAN MALIK DIERKS BENTLEY DAVID LYNCH Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav... BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE JULIE ANDREWS There are a bunch of songs that I think are beautiful recordings, and I'm proud of them, but I&#... DAMIEN RICE QUENTIN TARANTINO HUNTER HAYES EDDIE MURPHY SAM HUNT My main goal in life is to be happy. If I can make other people happy by doing what I love, then I f... CYRILLE AIMEE EDDIE VEDDER KIP MOORE Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt ... FLEUR EAST Once the subject matter of rock n' roll changed from cars and pop love songs to songs about real... DAVID CHASE I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music... KACEY MUSGRAVES I think, at some point, there's only so much you can draw from within without getting inspired f... EVELYNE BROCHU Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that th... LANGHORNE SLIM ANDRAE CROUCH JOSH TURNER CHARLI XCX REBEL WILSON I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering abou... NATE RUESS What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and ... DAVID FILO I'm always writing something. I've got so much stuff, I don't know what to do with it. S... JULIAN CASABLANCAS When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four ba... RANDY BACHMAN I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've... ALAN JACKSON MARY LAMBERT I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town... BETTY BUCKLEY DAVID BOWIE I've never been passionate about just music, I've never seen myself going into music in that... GRANT GUSTIN JON SECADA I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew.... GRETCHEN WILSON KYLIE JENNER ALONZO MOURNING It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a... TANYA TUCKER LAURA MVULA VICTORIA JUSTICE I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwrit... J. TILLMAN I'm going into my first Olympics, whereas people I'm racing against are going into their thi... ADAM PEATY JAY-Z LIL UZI VERT GOLDIE HAWN I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought... ARIJIT SINGH When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, b... CARLENE CARTER Some songs are just going to be acoustic with just maybe some light background stuff going on and ma... PHILLIP PHILLIPS Many times, people have come up to me after singing some songs, and they'd say, 'Richie, do ... RICHIE HAVENS ED SHEERAN I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've e... MALCOLM WILSON EDDIE VEDDER DR. SEUSS AARON NEVILLE JOE NAMATH The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - ... SLASH I've been on the cover of 'Time' magazine three times, not for my beauty but because wha... CHERYL TIEGS
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I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exac... RACHEL PLATTEN I'm a fighter, and I don't take no for an answer. RACHEL PLATTEN Food-wise, oh man, I tend to really indulge on vacation because a lot of my friends are incredible c... RACHEL PLATTEN My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very un... RACHEL PLATTEN I'd faced a lot of rejection from labels and the industry, and it was getting hard to keep belie... RACHEL PLATTEN Wherever I go, people are so kind and so lovely and so warm and show their best self. So I feel very... RACHEL PLATTEN I got a little bit lost in the writing process: like, that moment in the 'Fight Song' music ... RACHEL PLATTEN I love Kelly Clarkson's message, and I've heard comparisons to P!nk. RACHEL PLATTEN It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great. RACHEL PLATTEN I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones,... RACHEL PLATTEN I learned a lot from playing those late-night, 1-to-4 A.M. gigs with my band, and playing when no on... RACHEL PLATTEN I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they... RACHEL PLATTEN I do a lot of visualisations and meditation and a lot of hippie stuff. RACHEL PLATTEN When I wrote 'Fight Song,' I was in a particular low point. I needed to remind myself to not... RACHEL PLATTEN I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and ... RACHEL PLATTEN I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone... RACHEL PLATTEN I think my best friend is dry shampoo and dry texturizer spray. RACHEL PLATTEN I learned that I truly am a fighter and that I cannot give up. RACHEL PLATTEN In general, I think the world is a good place if you work hard, believe in yourself, have good inten... RACHEL PLATTEN There are a lot of people who give you the message that maybe you are not good enough, and the best ... RACHEL PLATTEN I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid. RACHEL PLATTEN The adventurer in me would love to visit Patagonia, Chile. RACHEL PLATTEN I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang ... RACHEL PLATTEN I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started wri... RACHEL PLATTEN I have always loved music. My mom used to sing with my sister and I when I was younger, and I was in... RACHEL PLATTEN Andy Grammer is probably the closest friend I have in the music industry, so touring with him was ju... RACHEL PLATTEN Though I played classical piano since age 5 and sang in a cappella groups, being an artist didn'... RACHEL PLATTEN I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip som... RACHEL PLATTEN My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been bat... RACHEL PLATTEN 'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but b... RACHEL PLATTEN I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what y... RACHEL PLATTEN I'm a big yogi. RACHEL PLATTEN I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one ... RACHEL PLATTEN I cannot believe that I get a tour bus. I've been traveling in a van for 15 years. I used to loo... RACHEL PLATTEN That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ide... RACHEL TRUE I feel like a lot of serious music lives in generalizations - 'Love is a flower,' 'The s... RACHEL BLOOM The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time w... RACHEL KUSHNER I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was. RACHEL ZOE If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, &#... RACHEL ZOE RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL DRATCH I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no wa... RACHEL SKLAR I would do fragrance. I'm a fragrance fanatic. RACHEL ZOE It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can&#... RACHEL ZOE As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend ... RACHEL ZOE The constant in all the businesses I've become a part of is taking what I do and making it real ... RACHEL ZOE I don't come from a family of slackers, but I do come from a family of doers. RACHEL ZOE People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind. RACHEL ZOE I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we ... RACHEL ZOE As great as it is, 'Vogue' won't change a designer's business. But if an unknown bra... RACHEL ZOE The thing that I really look for in people is enthusiasm and excitement and, not to sound really sap... RACHEL ZOE Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much... RACHEL ZOE I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the ... RACHEL ZOE When you look like you stepped out of a catalog, that's never good. People shouldn't succumb... RACHEL ZOE I think that sexiness should be in the subtleties. RACHEL ZOE I think people should look cute all the time. RACHEL ZOE I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is... RACHEL ZOE Sexiness should not be overt. Something shapeless that drapes across your hip, hangs off the shoulde... RACHEL ZOE I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats. RACHEL ZOE I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't h... RACHEL ZOE I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is. RACHEL ZOE Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life. RACHEL ZOE I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know. RACHEL WEISZ The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity. RACHEL WEISZ That was me under the bath and the water being held down. The director wanted it to look as real as ... RACHEL WEISZ L.A. makes you feel ugly. RACHEL WEISZ It's also that comedians don't have the kind of narcissism that actors have. They're wri... RACHEL WEISZ In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Eve... RACHEL WEISZ If I went out in killer heels and full makeup, blow dry, the whole thing - anyone dressed up like th... RACHEL WEISZ I've always been fascinated by activists, people who will devote their life to a cause, people w... RACHEL WEISZ I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible. RACHEL WEISZ I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by th... RACHEL WEISZ I find Hollywood really toxic. RACHEL WEISZ I do read movie blogs. I think what's really interesting - Probably everyone says this, but what... RACHEL WEISZ You have your real life and then you have your work. RACHEL WEISZ I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are ... RACHEL WEISZ The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite ... RACHEL WEISZ It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same ... RACHEL WEISZ My real fantasy if I was to drop out would be to live in a mobile home and be a hippie and drive aro... RACHEL WEISZ Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; wh... RACHEL WEISZ There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in peop... RACHEL WEISZ The older you get the more capable you get at managing life. RACHEL WEISZ As a child I was the best tree climber in our neighbourhood, I was like a little monkey. I've ne... RACHEL WEISZ I didn't think the teachers had the right to tell me what to do. I would just disobey, talk in t... RACHEL WEISZ I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs. RACHEL WEISZ You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say th... RACHEL WEISZ People still kill in the name of religion. We haven't evolved to the point where we're one t... RACHEL WEISZ I'm a storyteller, I'm an actor, an entertainer. RACHEL WEISZ Writers are very much undervalued in the creative process. RACHEL WARD I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually... RACHEL WARD I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I ... RACHEL WARD When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became. RACHEL WARD All anything takes, really, is confidence. RACHEL WARD There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not li... RACHEL WARD Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and ch... RACHEL WARD You're in a movie because you're appealing and because you represent the aspiration, the fan... RACHEL WARD I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque po... RACHEL WARD It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ... RACHEL TUCKER When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as ... RACHEL TUCKER 'We Will Rock You' is one of my favorite shows. I first saw it when I was a student at the R... RACHEL TUCKER We lived in Manhattan, which was unbearable sometimes because it was so noisy. There were sirens bla... RACHEL TUCKER Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and ... RACHEL TUCKER I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take mysel... RACHEL TUCKER If I thought about it before I went on, I would have never went on. So, therefore, you don't thi... RACHEL TUCKER I did a reality TV show in London called 'I'd Do Anything,' and when I got put in the pr... RACHEL TUCKER I'd been brought up on musicals. Instead of cartoons, we watched videocassettes of musicals at h... RACHEL TUCKER I can be very ordinary looking. RACHEL TUCKER I pride myself on not being run of the mill. I don't want to be your umpteenth Fantine in 'L... RACHEL TUCKER We used to have front-row seats for the Grand Opera House pantomime every year, and once the dame Ma... RACHEL TUCKER It's such a relief to see Catholic and Protestant ministers getting on - that's so rare. And... RACHEL TUCKER When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and Wh... RACHEL TUCKER Sting is a father figure to us all. RACHEL TUCKER I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years ... RACHEL TUCKER My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric ... RACHEL TUCKER 'The Last Ship,' which is a beautifully written piece, is about a love triangle and young me... RACHEL TUCKER Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green. RACHEL TUCKER I read books for exams at school, but only because I had to read them, and really didn't enjoy i... RACHEL TUCKER As far as developing a career as an actress, I think it's a fine balance between trying to just ... RACHEL TRUE Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury... RACHEL TRUE So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is... RACHEL TRUE If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your r... RACHEL TRUE When you work on a movie, you just have no idea how it's going to come out; you hope it's go... RACHEL TRUE Even befor doing this film, I've always been interested in mythology. RACHEL TRUE For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not a... RACHEL TRUE I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead. RACHEL TRUE Which is not to discount everything I've done in my past; everything I have learned tremendously... RACHEL TRUE And I can relate to that, because I went to an all white school, so I knew what that was like. And i... RACHEL TRUE In the end, I play a lot of friends and I really think it's about time that some ethnic girls ge... RACHEL TRUE I don't think I'm a follower, frankly. RACHEL TRUE Sometimes I wonder why I'm not working at McDonald's and how come I have the life I have. I ... RACHEL TRUE We filmed one scene on the beach and there was definitely weird energy around, and we were followed ... RACHEL TRUE Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that wo... RACHEL TRUE I like to make collages - paper collages. RACHEL TRUE My mother's Puerto Rican and my father's Russian-Jewish, so we consider ourselves to be Jewr... RACHEL TICOTIN If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the mo... RACHEL TICOTIN I'm more interested in my life than I am in my career. I don't want to not work. I do enjoy ... RACHEL TICOTIN RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS RACHEL STEVENS I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paychec... RACHEL SKLAR I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to so... RACHEL SKLAR As a matter of personal philosophy, I have generally said, 'Why not?' far more often than ei... RACHEL SKLAR I am attached to my Blackberry. Sometimes, when I'm holding it, my other hand goes to my pocket ... RACHEL SKLAR 'The Crumbling of America' should be required viewing for local and national government, not... RACHEL SKLAR For video clips, you can always assume that there is a creative component since you are literally de... RACHEL SKLAR 'Sesame Street' is awesome - not only because they teach, edify and entertain kids but becau... RACHEL SKLAR There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them... RACHEL SKLAR Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not p... RACHEL SKLAR My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I ... RACHEL SKLAR Women as a raw demographic unit exercise incredible power across every element of American life. RACHEL SKLAR I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, th... RACHEL SKLAR I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in. RACHEL SKLAR While I know that Twitter is doing just fine with or without my 140-character contributions, I also ... RACHEL SKLAR Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good. RACHEL SKLAR Flying over New Orleans on our approach, I got it. There was no view of land without water - water i... RACHEL SKLAR In 2014, having children is complicated and daunting and fraught - as much as it's always been, ... RACHEL SKLAR When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I a... RACHEL SKLAR We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us,... RACHEL SKLAR I'm Jewish, but not overly religious, and have certainly never formally observed the Fourth Comm... RACHEL SKLAR The best jokes resonate because they uncover ridiculousness in our daily lives, reveal the silliness... RACHEL SKLAR Good advice is just watch what you say on Facebook, on Twitter, on social networks because being sue... RACHEL SKLAR Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do. RACHEL SKLAR I always like to look at things and think, 'Would I be proud to bring my grandma and grandpa to ... RACHEL SKARSTEN Every reality show plot pales in comparison to our history. RACHEL SKARSTEN The special thing about 'Lost Girl' is it can be campy at times, but the show doesn't ta... RACHEL SKARSTEN Normally, learning lines is fairly easy for me, but when you add an accent onto that, it adds a comp... RACHEL SKARSTEN I'm no stranger to joining a show in the third season. I joined 'Lost Girl' at the same ... RACHEL SKARSTEN I've been through periods where I haven't worked and would have paid someone to give me a jo... RACHEL SKARSTEN While I deeply admire actors who deeply prepare, it's just not something I do. RACHEL SKARSTEN There is no such thing as women's intuition. You all just have crap poker faces. RACHEL SHELLEY I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to,... RACHEL SHELLEY I've always been Mac, so I guess I always will be. I can't imagine I will change now. RACHEL SHELLEY Yes I am definitely an 'Orange is the New Black' fan... Not an obsessive, but a fan none the... RACHEL SHELLEY We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind. RACHEL SHELLEY I'm not big on technology; I only get what I need. RACHEL SHELLEY I endeavour to read more, be more informed on gay rights. Whatever floats your boat is my outlook. I... RACHEL SHELLEY Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that. RACHEL SHELLEY RACHEL ROY RACHEL ROY RACHEL ROY
I'm in R&B/Soul, and I feel like all my music is R&B driven. Even some of the songs that... 
Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's... 
I hadn't played any music since freshman year of college, more than thirty years ago, so I had t... 
My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've be... 
I decided at 15 that I didn't want to be one of those artists that gets up and sings love songs ... 
I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I ... 
My favorite music isn't necessarily the songs that One Direction come out with. That doesn't... 
I try to make an album that reflects what I love about country music. It's not just all about ha... 
And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old s... 
People assume that a lot of pop artists don't write their songs. That, for me, is super frustrat... 
I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock song... 
I've looked at pictures that my mom has of me, from when I was four years old at the turntable. ... 
Even if some days I feel like I'm ready to fall apart, I am ultimately happier than I've eve... 
I think of music as creating a space. I like to put things in that are comforting to me and are nost... 
I love nothing more than to perform my songs in front of a live audience. And whatever I'm doing... 
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. 
I've done a lot of performance practice, Baroque playing, and some of the joy and the challenge ... 
I don't think I'm turning back the clock by doing these old tunes. I love rock and roll and ... 
So, I'm always around video games but I've always been interested in them from a visual pers... 
When I go to see people, I always kind of hope they are going to play some kind of songs I know. So ... 
Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... 
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like... 
It's warts and all in my songs, and I think that's why people can relate to them. 
I had an amazing feeling when i finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... 
I had an amazing feeling when I finally held the tape in my hand. I just thought to myself that in t... 
I know that there's a god because I was able to survive everything that I've been through - ... 
I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some real... 
I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to... 
Amaal and I have some sort of magnetic connection. I am my brother's first assistant. So I have ... 
I love music, of course, and many, many, many genres. There are hardly any songs I would say that I ... 
I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I us... 
I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge... 
I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge musi... 
After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've ... 
I do think I'm country, but your definition of that word might be different from my definition. ... 
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different... 
I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that... I've been kind of reck... 
I do go back and listen to my songs. I'm biting my fingernails the whole way through, but I do l... 
I love deeply, and when it comes to singing love songs and something that I have no problem doing, I... 
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am... 
I love rapping. I do. My styling's similar to Missy Elliott - I think she's so dope. In a we... 
I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes ... 
I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doin... 
For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I'v... 
I'm way flashier on Instagram and Snapchat because I feel like that's what people want to se... 
Tough times don't last, but tough people do. And I've been through some tough times, and I k... 
I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm do... 
I will say that a lot of songs that I've written are from my own personal experiences which are ... 
If I go into a studio and find my truth of the moment, there are a number of people in the world who... 
The type of music I make, it's not just straight-up rapping. There's emotion in it. That'... 
When I turned 50, I asked some of my girlfriends, all actresses of the same age, 'What are we go... 
I don't think that there's much that sets me apart from other musicians, but I think there a... 
Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of... 
I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from be... 
There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to ge... 
I've been some through some things medically. I've seen some things on my brain. But I'v... 
I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not. 
I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think ... 
My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz. 
I'm so programmed to getting up early that I like to make the most of the day. 
I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me. 
I have always admired the way women put outfits together. 
I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features. 