Quotes About Identity

I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.

I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Music is my mother and my father; it is my work and my rest...my blood...my compass...my love.

When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country.

Journalists say my music is "blue wave," or "dreamy," or "jangly-slacker jewel," and none of it really makes sense to me.

I don't write my music for Sony. I write it for the people who are screaming down the road crying to a full-blast stereo.

The image is one thing and the human being is another...it's very hard to live up to an image.

A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans.

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

The past which is not recoverable in any other way is embedded, as if in amber, in the music, and people can regain a sense of identity.

When I think about country music, I think about America.

To me, music was about being accepted and escaping from this crummy existence.

From the music I make, to the things I do in my life, I'm true to my R&B core.

I never do anything to strictly satisfy a fickle, ever-changing commercial world. I do the music I like to play. It's the only way I feel comfortable existing in the industry.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

You've got to make your own kind of music, sing your own special song, make your own kind of music, even if nobody else sings along.

Being British, I don't really have a way of expressing myself in conversation. Music transcends language.

The blues was bleeding the same blood as me.

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

I get all these loser preps coming up to me asking for autographs and all this crap, and I really want to tell them, 'My music is not for people like you!

If you understood everything I say, you'd be me!