"Debbie Harry" (Blondie)

And I wasn't convinced that I was the most talented person in the world.
Debbie Harry

And living in a metropolitan area which is ethnically diverse, our lives are very complicated, so our emotional experiences are going to be varied like that.
Debbie Harry

And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
Debbie Harry

But as a writer and performer, I want to get paid for what I do.
Debbie Harry

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out.
Debbie Harry

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.
Debbie Harry

Capote wrote every day. He said that's the only way, you have to sit down every day and do it.
Debbie Harry

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.
Debbie Harry

I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
Debbie Harry

I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
Debbie Harry

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
Debbie Harry

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
Debbie Harry

I feel like I have to have a voice.
Debbie Harry

I get myself a gig somewhere, whether it's in a club, whether it's in a bar, it doesn't matter, and I just work on New Year's Eve because I always feel it's very symbolic for me for the next year, for the new year.
Debbie Harry

I have a lot of regrets, but I'm not going to think of them as regrets.
Debbie Harry

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.
Debbie Harry

I mean I think that Blondie's influence is a little bit in a way more eclectic than those bands.
Debbie Harry

I really, really like writing songs.
Debbie Harry

I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
Debbie Harry

I turned on VH1 this morning just to get a little warm-up before I came over here, and I think it's just terrific. There's so much great stuff: diverse and wonderful music, good performances, great looking girls, great videos, the whole thing.
Debbie Harry

I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
Debbie Harry

I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve.
Debbie Harry

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.
Debbie Harry

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
Debbie Harry

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.
Debbie Harry

That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't.
Debbie Harry

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.
Debbie Harry

We wanted to enjoy what we were doing and we had business things we had to straighten out and personnel problems and it sort of took a little time to do it.
Debbie Harry

You always fall for the rascal or the guy who's got a little bit of the devil in him. You can't help it.
Debbie Harry

Michael Jackson

And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead.
Michael Jackson

Because I think every child star suffers through this period because you're not the cute and charming child that you were. You start to grow, and they want to keep you little forever.
Michael Jackson

Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater.
Michael Jackson

Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him.
Michael Jackson

Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists.
Michael Jackson

But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to.
Michael Jackson

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.
Michael Jackson

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
Michael Jackson

Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child.
Michael Jackson

Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it.
Michael Jackson

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?
Michael Jackson

I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson

I love my family very much. I wish I could see them a little more often than I do. But we understand because we're a show business family and we all work.
Michael Jackson

I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go.
Michael Jackson

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.
Michael Jackson

I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me.
Michael Jackson

I'm a black American, I am proud of my race. I am proud of who I am. I have a lot of pride and dignity.
Michael Jackson

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.
Michael Jackson

I'm just like anyone. I cut and I bleed. And I embarass easily.
Michael Jackson

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
Michael Jackson

I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids.
Michael Jackson

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Michael Jackson

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.
Michael Jackson

Just because it's in print doesn't mean it's the gospel.
Michael Jackson

Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation.
Michael Jackson

Me and Janet really are two different people.
Michael Jackson

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson

People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
Michael Jackson

Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Michael Jackson

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.
Michael Jackson

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael Jackson

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson

Well Brooke, I've always liked her, and when I was little I used to stay with Diana Ross, me and my brothers stayed with her for years and I never said, but I always had a crush on her.
Michael Jackson

Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.
Michael Jackson

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.
Michael Jackson

When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see.
Michael Jackson

Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do.
Michael Jackson

Yeah, Wacko Jacko, where did that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings. I feel that when you do that to me. It's not nice.
Michael Jackson

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson

You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town.
Michael Jackson

Tim McGraw

I thought I was going to grow to be a pro ball player, but I found out real quick that was not going to happen.
Tim McGraw

But, yea, I grew up in a strong Baptist background.
Tim McGraw

Country radio went through a time where they were trying to pigeonhole everybody, and trying to make the gap really narrow, and I think that they've opened that up a little bit.
Tim McGraw

Everyone should have their own opinion and be able to voice it. No matter what it is. Of course, that does not mean your opinion is always right. But, you're certainly entitled to your opinion.
Tim McGraw

Five years ago I figured we were at the top of our game and that was the best it was going to get, but with every album it seems to keep on building on itself.
Tim McGraw

I always want to learn but I am sure on my dying day I will feel like I left something in the bucket.
Tim McGraw

I coach my daughter's softball and basketball team. We go to all the school functions. We go out to eat at night and take the kids to the movies. We try to be as normal as we can.
Tim McGraw

I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.
Tim McGraw

I don't want to make that sound like I'm preaching from a mountain top when I say you have to give your family everything, because I know it's hard for people. I'm lucky to be in a position where you can establish those ground rules and make it that way.
Tim McGraw

I feel like that I'm learning all the time. I'm learning from new artists, from established artists... every time I listen to '70s rock 'n' roll records, I'm learning. And I think that I'm just now starting to get a hold on what I do.
Tim McGraw

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.
Tim McGraw

I like the values in Flicka, and I wanted to do a movie my kids could see and be proud of.
Tim McGraw

I live in a house with four women. Just shut up and say, Yes, ma'am.
Tim McGraw

I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.
Tim McGraw

I love producing. I have been producing some acts and starting a label.
Tim McGraw

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.
Tim McGraw

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.
Tim McGraw

I mean, there's a little bit that gets out, but for the most part, the thing that makes us work, and makes our family successful, and our life successful, is when we walk home and we walk into our doors of our house, all that other stuff is left outside. It's not a factor.
Tim McGraw

I think you have to be a little bit strict. You can't be friend and their parent in a lot of situations, especially in this day and age where it's so dangerous for kids. So there's a bit of sternness, I guess, in the way I raise my kids.
Tim McGraw

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.
Tim McGraw

I'm a private guy, and you don't want to be out there preaching to people. But faith leads you in the decisions you make. You don't always pick the right path, but it's there in your conscience.
Tim McGraw

I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music.
Tim McGraw

I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say.
Tim McGraw

I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.
Tim McGraw

It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel.
Tim McGraw

No, there will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis - I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.
Tim McGraw

The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country.
Tim McGraw

The last movie I did, I was very lucky: I got to work with probably the best actor of our era, Billy Bob Thornton. He's just incredible. I was like a sponge: I soaked up everything he had to say.
Tim McGraw

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.
Tim McGraw

We're parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.
Tim McGraw

We're very blessed, just very fortunate to have the things we have.
Tim McGraw

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.
Tim McGraw

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.
Tim McGraw

You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.
Tim McGraw

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.
Tim McGraw

Andy Gibb (3/5/58 - 3/10/88)

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.
Andy Gibb

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.
Andy Gibb

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.
Andy Gibb

I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
Andy Gibb

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.
Andy Gibb

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
Andy Gibb

I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
Andy Gibb

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
Andy Gibb

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.
Andy Gibb

There is nothing to compare with the instantaneous feedback a singer gets from the people sitting in front of him. That is where it all comes together - all the rehearsing and working to get everything just exactly right.
Andy Gibb

Victoria was just as much in love with me as I was with her. We could not bear to be apart for a single second. We were like two lovers shipwrecked on a desert island. There was no world outside our love.
Andy Gibb

"Aaliyah"

All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
Aaliyah

Because I came out as a singer, I took the time to get an acting coach.
Aaliyah

I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
Aaliyah

I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.
Aaliyah

I don't think about my previous success. I'm happy that the work I've done has been very successful.
Aaliyah

I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
Aaliyah

I have the time needed to support the album and tour.
Aaliyah

I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Aaliyah

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
Aaliyah

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliyah

I want people to remember me as a full on entertainer and a good person.
Aaliyah

I'm a total performer.
Aaliyah

I'm involved in some action scenes, so they'll train me for that. I'll be working with my acting coach to prepare for my character.
Aaliyah

I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
Aaliyah

If I don't think about it, it won't drive me crazy.
Aaliyah

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.
Aaliyah

In film, you are a totally different person than in the video.
Aaliyah

It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Aaliyah

It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
Aaliyah

It's really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.
Aaliyah

Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
Aaliyah

Romeo Must Die came at the right time. It was the right vehicle for me.
Aaliyah

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
Aaliyah

There are certain things I want to keep to me. I don't discuss my private life.
Aaliyah

There are times I can't even figure myself out.
Aaliyah

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
Aaliyah

You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
Aaliyah

Bette Midler

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.
Bette Midler

Cherish forever what makes you unique, 'cuz you're really a yawn if it goes.
Bette Midler

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.
Bette Midler

I always try to balance the light with the heavy - a few tears of human spirit in with the sequins and the fringes.
Bette Midler

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
Bette Midler

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.
Bette Midler

I made a pact with myself a long time ago: Never watch anything stupider than you. It's helped me a lot.
Bette Midler

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.
Bette Midler

I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette Midler

I try not to drink too much because when I'm drunk, I bite.
Bette Midler

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.
Bette Midler

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something.
Bette Midler

I'm working my way toward divinity.
Bette Midler

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.
Bette Midler

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette Midler

My idea of superwoman is someone who scrubs her own floors.
Bette Midler

Rap is poetry set to music. But to me it's like a jackhammer.
Bette Midler

The worst part of success is to try to find someone who is happy for you.
Bette Midler

When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London.
Bette Midler

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
Bette Midler

Al Green

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.
Al Green

I'm thankful for every moment.
Al Green

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.
Al Green

Pakistan's being an ally and helping the United States, we ought to show Pakistan that we are appreciative for the help that's been extended.
Al Green

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.
Al Green