I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
It's always mildly unnerving when you're hanging upside down 70 feet in the air.
My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
No matter what you're going through, as long as you have some specific emotion, whether it's positive or negative, it is all stuff that you can use on stage.
I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
But all ladies think they weigh too much.
Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.
For me, aesthetically, Donatella Versace represent what the Italian woman is. There is always the American rock thing, the aristocratic, above-the-rest British manner, but Italy is at the heart of it.
A world made to be lost, -A bitter life 'twixt pain and nothing tost.