I’ve never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.
The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals.
You don’t know how many people come up to me and say, ‘This child was conceived listening to you.’
Self-expression is my goal, I want to be real with my feelings. Singing and dancing and all the joy that goes with performing come from my heart. If I can’t feel it, I won’t do it.
I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
People can have rhinoceros skin, but there’s a point when something’s going to hurt you.
No word is absolutely wrong or dirty or insulting. It all depends upon context and intention.
I can’t believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
I am the baby in the family, and I always will be. I am actually very happy to have that position. But I still get teased. I don’t mind that.
Marvin Gaye is our John Lennon. The longer he’s gone, the more young people appreciate his art. ‘What’s Going On’ was a work of genius far ahead of it’s time.
When I’m feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I’m feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I’ll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I’ll turn around and do it again.
Recording is more autobiographical than acting. It’s me – either how I’m feeling then or once felt at some point in my life. It’s all me.
I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there’s someone you don’t hear from, it’s the person you want to hear from the most.
My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.
People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
Food has always brought me comfort and the bingeing is triggered when I’m in a space that is not positive.
That’s always – that’s been another dream of mine, to do a Broadway play. An award winning Broadway play.
If I wasn’t singing, I’d probably be, probably an accountant.