- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
Me Quotes
Quotes rooted in the first person.
These are quotes centered on 'me' - childhood memories tied to family traditions, like a grandfather's holiday reading passed down for decades, alongside admissions about how humor can double as self-protection. Several speak to the solitary nature of creative work, something also explored in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing for me that modeling definitely did was that you go to do a different job every day, and you are working with a completely new team of people. You have to learn how to talk to people and how to creatively achieve the same goals. I think it just hones your people skills.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't lie... My face always gives me away. I'm also pathetically bad at poker!
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the U.S., but I didn't click with anyone.
- Classic
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- Nov 07, 2020
From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.
- Lock
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- Nov 07, 2020
Playing the guitar, you kind of lock into a rhythm and a groove, and then it relaxes me to make up lyrics and sing.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, the moment the mic is on and it's rolling, it's impossible to vocally relax for some reason. But one day, I'm going to be able to sing the way I sang when I was a little kid, completely open and free. That's, I think, the one thing that's changed: Growing older, I'm not ashamed to hear my voice.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People and their religions don't affect me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became very famous, as a teenager, and my name and photo were splashed in all the media. They made me larger than life, so I wanted to live larger than life, and the only way to do that was to be intoxicated.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ever since I became a Muslim, I've had to deal with attempts to damage my reputation and countless insinuations seeking to cast doubt on my character and trying to connect me to causes which I do not subscribe to.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the early days I had a very black-and-white view of everything. I think that's kind of natural for anyone who's just embraced Islam - or any religion - as a convert. It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was important for me to duck out of the fast and furious life I'd been living as a pop star. I was in a different mood.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020