The more natural, the better.
I wanna sing about something that’s sexy and edgy.
I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.
My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it’s magical.
When I was 17, my producer Rodney Jerkins was working with Michael Jackson at the time. He knew how much I wanted to meet Michael Jackson, so he says, ‘Would you like to come and meet him?’ I’m like, ‘Are you serious? Of course I want to meet Michael Jackson! Where do I meet you? Where do we come?’
It feels so great to be back on the scene.
I’ve been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I’m working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I’ve done so far.
The art of living… is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive.
[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.
Life can’t be all that bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
If you enjoy it enough you’re bound to learn something.
Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.
Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).
Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.
My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.
Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.
