Natasha Bedingfield
Related DAVID ARCHULETA I knew I was a bit cautious. I took a bit of a chance where I could, but I wanted to make sure I was... LAUREN HOUGH COLE SWINDELL BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I also wanted to make a record that was about other things than romance, yeah, after two years on th... DUNCAN SHEIK We recorded over a dozen songs we had just learned the day before. I knew before I went in to record... JOHN CORBETT ERYKAH BADU I went into record some demo songs and Paul [Fitzsimmons] let me borrow one of his electric guitars,... JEFF SCHMUTZ Right after September 11, we went to England, and I was a mess, ... I was really depressed. ... I ca... JOE PERNICE CHELY WRIGHT KINA GRANNIS All I wanted to do was write songs, but all the things I wrote in Detroit, they put them out by diff... EDDIE FLOYD I think I had kind of an advantage. When I was growing up, my dad had just got out of jail and he ha... CHRIS ISAAK CANDACE CAMERON BURE It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything a... TANYA TUCKER I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Will... DICK DALE I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing ... RANDY TRAVIS G-EAZY STEVIE NICKS JEREMY IRONS I'd call it an organic hip-hop style, musically. Back in the late '80s and early '90s, people sample... MIKE SHINODA I just couldn't sing them because I couldn't relate, ... I knew that I could be performing these son... HOPE PARTLOW JASON MRAZ I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction. TRACE ADKINS I play in a band, I write songs, I sing, you know, perform on stage. ADAM LEVINE AVRIL LAVIGNE I don't want to say what Buffalo offered, but I took the best deal. . . . I got four years, the deal... ALEXEI ZHITNIK GEORGE STRAIT BARRY GIBB Too many times you come across lyrics that sound like you've heard them before or you can't ... EMMY ROSSUM I knew we would eventually settle down because we were a bit tight in the beginning, but Stephen got... RANDY WRIGHT LYKKE LI The kids really took to it. I showed them some samples, gave them a quick demo and set them loose, a... KATHIE BRIGGS When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. I knew 'Bandz A Make Her Dance' was a goo... JUICY J RUBEN BLADES Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last. DICK DALE And if the audience is moving in that direction, you have to move with them. I'm perfectly capable o... DARRYL WORLEY I knew I always wanted to sing. DAVID RUFFIN BOB DYLAN JOHNNY CASH Before everything happened I wished i had double voice box like a song bird so I could sing two song... KAREN FOXLEE DOLLY PARTON I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part ... JIM VARNEY KATY PERRY There are so many songs that I could not sing the way I wanted to. When such songs come on televisio... LATA MANGESHKAR BEBE REXHA VAN MORRISON When I started out, I wrote the songs, recorded the songs, mastered, mixed, did the artwork, made th... ALOE BLACC CHANTAL KREVIAZUK TONY HAWK G-EAZY LOU REED BEN KINGSLEY When I am not working, I go to the movies, text my friends, my thumbs are faster than lightening on ... ARIEL WINTER JOSH TURNER And the thing about me is, I have a lot of mellow songs, because they're the easiest for me to w... PRISCILLA AHN Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I just wanted to make a record that wasn't escapism. Like, I didn't want to write another re... DAN DEACON EUGENE FIELD BUCK OWENS WILLIAM SAROYAN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I BRUNO MARS It was a lot of years before I got something I wanted to sing in front of other people. CHUCK BRODSKY EL DEBARGE I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down... BARRY LEVINSON When I first started making music, I didn't really know what I was doing. I just wanted to write... JULIANA HATFIELD I recorded harp first or singing first. I recorded it all together. Part of the reason is that I don... JOANNA NEWSOM JOAN BAEZ PAUL MCCARTNEY Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle ranc... SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR ADRIAN BELEW KATE SMITH We recorded our demo in November and it should be out in a few weeks. You can listen to rough versio... ETHAN HAMPTON What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creati... RODNEY CROWELL GWEN STEFANI The last record was what I would sound like if I played in a rock band - and I don?t. So I wanted to... GLEN PHILLIPS The reason I started, and got into playing punk as a band was quite mercenary, to be honest. I wante... GARY NUMAN I knew 'Strangers in the Night' was a hit when we recorded it, ... We did it live in the studio with... GLEN CAMPBELL AIMEE MANN I really wanted to work with Kate Mulgurew and Natasha Lyonne. SAMIRA WILEY I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe... BONNIE MCKEE Some people might go to the gym and swim laps, but I write songs. Every single day, I write somethin... GLENN HUGHES DEMETRI MARTIN Then I thought I was going to be a photographer. I tried a hand at darkroom technician. I played in ... GUY JOHNSON I have a really hard time writing my own lyrics for this record, because one, I had to write so many... KIM GORDON In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH My little brother and I took piano lessons at a young age and played music together later on in life... JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME My father is a silent cinema freak, so he took me to 1925 silent films that took forever, like 5-hou... CARICE VAN HOUTEN GEORGE HARRISON I didn't feel the pressure that everybody thinks about on sophomore albums. I didn't think about it.... GRETCHEN WILSON I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to Cal... DREW SEELEY I love the whole aspect of music, especially the singing; I never get tired of finding new songs to ... JOHNNY MATHIS I love to sing big rock and roll songs; I love to sing country-pop stuff, and then I love to sing so... ELLE KING I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do th... GABRIELLE APLIN When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piec... AUDRA MCDONALD COLIN HAY I have been taking voice and singing lessons since age 10 and originally got into it because I was r... DAYA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The songs just sing themselves to me. They kind of write themselves. I just stand back and listen. CINDY WALKER
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I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean som... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm very honest in my music and I'm often asked to explain the lyrics; as an introvert, I fi... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy.... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I would love to do something with Coldplay. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The common denominator is a love of music. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I get very deep into the writing and recording process. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I&... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD The music technology scene is changing so fast it's hard to keep up. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make ... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD People don't listen to one radio station. On iTunes you can mix different worlds and bring count... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I don't want to be the next anyone. I just want to be me, now. And that means all different thin... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I was... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I'm the diva from the future. The next gig's on the moon. Catch me while you can. NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD No one else can speak the words on your lips Drench yourself in words unspoken Live your life with a... NATASHA BEDINGFIELD Right now, I feel OK and very grateful to be alive. I don't remember much about what happened but I'... DANIEL BEDINGFIELD Californians have already seen one of their congressional representatives sent to prison in a briber... KATE BEDINGFIELD Families in central Virginia are sick and tired of Representative Goode putting lobbyists and the sp... KATE BEDINGFIELD She's done a really good job of energizing supporters in California and laying out her commitment to... KATE BEDINGFIELD I find theater very lazy and artificial, and then when it's not, it lacks refinement. NATASHA TSAKOS I love theater. I love the idea that you can transform, become somebody else, and look at life with ... NATASHA TSAKOS I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'U... NATASHA TSAKOS As a street performer, I have learned that everybody wants to connect. And that usually, if you'... NATASHA TSAKOS I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've ... 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NATASHA RICHARDSON I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to b... NATASHA RICHARDSON As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our child... NATASHA RICHARDSON I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so ... NATASHA RICHARDSON I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about... NATASHA RICHARDSON I've played comedy before but not that much. I mostly do get drawn to darker material. NATASHA RICHARDSON What's in the movie compared to what we shot is the tip of the iceberg. NATASHA RICHARDSON I wake up every morning feeling lucky - which is driven by fear, no doubt, since I know it could all... NATASHA RICHARDSON What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are ... 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NATASHA LITTLE I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a... NATASHA LITTLE I'm not cool at all. I'm the least cool person I know. NATASHA LITTLE By the time I was 10, I had lived in 11 different countries. NATASHA LITTLE I love acting. It's what I do, not what I am. NATASHA LITTLE I've been very fortunate. NATASHA LITTLE Being an actor does make you aware of your age. NATASHA LITTLE It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was a... NATASHA LITTLE My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was ... NATASHA LITTLE I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in p... NATASHA LITTLE I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that pers... NATASHA LITTLE Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn'... NATASHA LITTLE Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job. NATASHA LITTLE As an actor, I'm in such a privileged position because my work is job by job. If something doesn... NATASHA LITTLE I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job. NATASHA LITTLE Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you g... NATASHA LITTLE Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something f... NATASHA LITTLE I have this sense of humour which is about as sophisticated as a seven-year-old schoolboy. I get ver... NATASHA LITTLE I was told it might be quite difficult to conceive, so it really was a great blessing when my pregna... NATASHA LITTLE I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and... NATASHA LITTLE I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my lif... NATASHA LITTLE In general, comedians are attracted to vice. NATASHA LEGGERO In L.A., you tend to see a lot of people do very bizarre things. I love it. NATASHA LEGGERO I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up ... NATASHA LEGGERO I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not g... NATASHA LEGGERO My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right n... NATASHA LEGGERO Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedia... NATASHA LEGGERO Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where ... NATASHA LEGGERO When I was 23, I moved to Australia to be with this 43-year-old con artist I fell in love with. NATASHA LEGGERO I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view. NATASHA LEGGERO What's great about stand-up is that you can say whatever you want and go around the country, and... NATASHA LEGGERO I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until y... NATASHA LEGGERO I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times. NATASHA LEGGERO I was raised Catholic in Rockford, Illinois. But I'm not a practicing Catholic anymore. Oh God, ... NATASHA LEGGERO Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over. NATASHA LEGGERO For comedians, we're all kind of tweeting our thoughts instead of spending time developing them.... NATASHA LEGGERO I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians. NATASHA LEGGERO Neil Hamburger writes such cutting jokes. NATASHA LEGGERO There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm... NATASHA LEGGERO Guys should not be allowed to use the Internet all day long. So sad. NATASHA LEGGERO I always wanted so much glamour in my life, so I have always been obsessed with class, and from dati... NATASHA LEGGERO There are some die-hard 'Chelsea Lately' fans, and that's where the majority of my fans ... NATASHA LEGGERO Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you di... NATASHA LEGGERO Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,'... NATASHA LEGGERO The women's movement ruined a permanent vacation. NATASHA LEGGERO My friends who have babies can't do anything. You can't go out at night. Having a baby is li... NATASHA LEGGERO My dream part would be to play Mitt Romney's sarcastic black maid. We could call it 'Mammy &... NATASHA LEGGERO It is kind of cliche to say you like a man to smell like a man, but I really do. My husband can go t... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE When I started off, I didn't only ride to fame on my looks though many people I know think other... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them. NATASHA HENSTRIDGE The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, ... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes. NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too st... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I guess Species was a movie made for me and hence I bagged the role. In fact even when acting, I nev... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I believe that every role that I have done this far has had quality and content. My roles have been ... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I began as a model, but that did not really hold my interest for too long! I believe I stood out fro... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Even my parents are so cute, and they deal with every movie of mine excellently. They check with me ... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Where is this Hollywood scene, where is it? I'd like to find it one day... If I want to go out a... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girli... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Well, I have a couple of projects in the pipeline, but I'm taking things slow for now and being ... NATASHA HENSTRIDGE I never forget my old days and I never fly too high I have my feet fixed firmly on the ground! NATASHA HENSTRIDGE Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more. NATASHA HAMILTON We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped! NATASHA HAMILTON Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident. NATASHA HAMILTON I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me... NATASHA HAMILTON If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone. NATASHA HAMILTON I love anything quiz related. NATASHA HAMILTON When I was seven, I asked my mom if I could be on TV, and she said if I really wanted to, I could. I... NATASHA CALIS What I love to do requires portraying different characters, and you have to separate your life from ... NATASHA CALIS I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a dif... NATASHA CALIS I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's ... NATASHA CALIS I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, bu... NATASHA CALIS NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ NATASHA TRETHEWEY NATASHA LYONNE NATASHA TRETHEWEY When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, NATASHA TSAKOS The chasm between rich and poor is becoming larger, and I think it's interesting terrain to talk... NATASHA LEGGERO NATASHA LYONNE NATASHA TRETHEWEY Every four weeks I go up a bra size... it's worth being pregnant just for the breasts. NATASHA HAMILTON The only thing I knew was that I would give myself permission to imagine anything, and reverse engin... NATASHA TSAKOS NATASHA TRETHEWEY NATASHA LYONNE NATASHA TRETHEWEY NATASHA TRETHEWEY He is the definition of sexy. This is a guy who is very confident with both his feminine and masculi... NATASHA TERRY Get this under control as soon as you can young lady, because no one here gives a damn about your un... NATASHA LARRY How the hell am I supposed to respect someone who sold herself to the highest bidder?" he growled wi... NATASHA ANDERS Suddenly it felt like there was a ticking time bomb in the house. I didn’t have all the time in th... NATASHA ANDERS NATASHA LYONNE She'd done it again... killed another monster with his own sins. NATASHA LARRY Haylee thought of all the supernatural creatures that could kill her... a vampire or even a vampire ... NATASHA LARRY Well, of course. But, we already knew that. I mean... I am kind of a big deal-Matt Carter NATASHA LARRY NATASHA TRETHEWEY Be inspired by things in life that are beautiful and good. NATASHA VANDERLINDEN An attempt to resolve what the mind considers to be an irresolvable issue, creates a third option. I... NATASHA DEANE NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ NATASHA JOSEFOWITZ
Before 'American Idol' and all this stuff, I was obsessed with music charts, and I used to g... 
Every single day I wrote a song, I was hoping somebody like Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean or whoever woul... 
And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs. 
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC bec... 
All I ever wanted to do was write songs and get on a bus and go play them for people. 
In college, I faced an interesting problem. I wanted to play music all the time and yet I wasn't... 
The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, ... 
I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a r... 
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrot... 
I came to London. I spent nine months doing domestic work and gardening because I knew I wanted to g... 
I was lucky that way. I always held on to it and appreciated it, ... The songs on this album were mo... 
I started singing in church and I was probably around seven and I started singing anywhere that I co... 
I had wanted to sing a song with Lee Ann for a while, ... I think she's a great singer, and she alwa... 
I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them. 
I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I never took music lessons. I was just playing around in front ... 
I was never particularly a part of the following of tango; I just liked it... most of all, I recogni... 
All I'd ever done was sing songs that were dead straight and expressed powerful new realities. I had... 
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother play... 
I used to sing songs and write with my uncle, Bill Owens. 
With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them. 
I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record de... 
I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. Tha... 
Once I got a record contract, and I took my songs which weren't quite finished, or maybe they we... 
I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... 
When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn't like ... 
For a while, I felt a little self-impelled to write Lou Reed Kind of songs. I should have understood... 
John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on st... 
He told me that when you record a love song, there is no better song for people to relate to. My fir... 
I cannot sing the old songs I sang long years ago, And yet I cannot say I'm sad That time hath chang... 
I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs t... 
I heard that if you locked William Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for long enough, he'd eve... 
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. ... 
When I write songs, when I sing songs, I don't have anybody in mind. I'm just trying to expr... 
I see a young man playing 'Plaisir d'Amour' on guitar. I knew I didn't want to go to... 
I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got... 
I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs. 
In 29 years, I had recorded over 2,200 songs. I was amazed. 
All I wanted to do was make a dance record. Not even that — a stupid dance record. 
I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. 
And of course I didn't make any money from stand up for years, so I had temp jobs. That was the ... 
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write son... 
I have no problems playing (Men at Work) songs, ... But it would be a little bit sad, in a sense, if... 
Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th... 
I think I felt at some point that I couldn't understand poetry or that it was beyond me or it di... 
On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress ... 
I don't really feel like I need to be a teenager ever again. 
You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you&... 
I would love to option 'Crying of Lot 49' and turn it into a movie. 
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under... 
What is luck? It is not only chance, it is also creating the opportunity, recognizing it when it is ... 