It blows me away the number of truck drivers or macho guys that will call, and then I start peeling back the layers, and I find out they've been listening to me for 10 or 15 years, and they know every lyric to every sappy song.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. DELILAH Every once in a while, I hear somebody call me Tracy to try to let me know that they know me, you kn... ICE T I've gone far in the movie business, but no matter how far I go, every time I pick up the phone ... DAWN STEEL You know, there's an economy in lyric-writing that doesn't afford you, or at least me - I us... J. TILLMAN I love the 'Delilah' show. I've been listening to it for years and years. It's incre... RONNIE MILSAP If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can&... ELLA HENDERSON John Coltrane - I've been listening to the 'Trane again. It blows you away, because I know m... ALAN VEGA There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris... STEVE HARVEY When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you&... CHARLIE FINK I think I'm alright as a lyricist, you know? But then what will happen every couple of months or... ALEX TURNER I've been in very many situations where I've not liked the other members of the band or they... JOHN LYDON I remember, when I was a kid, listening to the radio and hearing 'Big Bad John' by Jimmy Dea... NIKKI SIXX Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think... DAVID MAMET I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me. KURT COBAIN I've learned that in the theater the story is everything. Every lyric, every line and every musi... TREY ANASTASIO My two best friends, they love amusement parks. They are such roller-coaster daredevils, and they dr... KATHERINE MCNAMARA I am sure that unless attitudes change, in 10 or 15 years the poor classes will be obese and the ric... DR CHRISTIAN PETIT Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. T... CHET ATKINS I've been to Cannes 15 or 16 times, and every time I go, there's a kind of soul-stirring fee... GONG LI Every day while I was in the hospital, every one of the them came and saw me, and they just wanted m... DAMIEN HESS If I can start my day out by saying my prayers and getting myself focused, then I know I'm doing... MARK WAHLBERG Every demo I do has a mandolin or resonator on it - some element of the bluegrass or classic country... HUNTER HAYES When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a... MARYJANICE DAVIDSON I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes... SHILPA SHETTY I mean, I could just go round and use session musicians for every song, but I don't find that he... JAY KAY The people who knew me and knew my work and trusted me, they knew then as they do now that I've ... JACK KELLEY I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me... VALERIE JUNE I wrote a song several years ago while I was in college called 'Muscadine Wine.' I really di... SAM HUNT I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in ... CHRIS ISAAK You want to play in every Test and you want to start in every Test. That's probably the first thing.... MATT GITEAU People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won... RUTH RENDELL I've always been intellectually restless, but it is the building part of it that most interests ... BILLY BEANE I plan on playing basketball here or overseas for 10-15 years then start my own business in real est... HERBERT HILL I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate ... LAUREN WEISBERGER I like these words for what they are and what they tell me. Regardless of any potential "motives".
W... WAKE UP! MESSAGE I'm really thankful for every experience I've had, even the ones that were puzzling or disor... TAVI GEVINSON Simplicity - that's what I want. It's been a rare commodity for me for a number of years, bu... JOHNNY DEPP It's so funny, I've done so many projects where I've been interrogated. I guest starred ... AARON PAUL I knew I was different. I thought that I might be gay or something because I couldn't identify with ... KURT COBAIN What I learned was that celebrities come to me with a preconceived notion. They think I'm fun, o... VICKI LAWRENCE My first real business was bootlegging T-shirts - I was just a dumb kid. You go to a concert and pay... KEVIN PLANK Maybe they'll let me pitch 10 or 15 innings. I know for sure they don't want me to pitch ... but I d... FRANCISCO RODRIGUEZ When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the b... LARRY BIRD I've been overlooked and slighted every step of the way. I think that brings out the best in me. JORDAN RODGERS I predict that in 10 or 15 years, printing of certain publications such as newspaper and magazines w... YONI STERN If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I d... KENDALL JENNER I knew coming up here my role was that they put me where they need to. If that's in the bullpen or s... BRANDON MCCARTHY Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've... WARREN G I've always loved 'Umbrella.' Funny enough, my ex-husband wrote that, and I'm not sa... CHRISTINA MILIAN Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I real... YARA SHAHIDI It's funny because ever since 'American Idol,' people look at me without makeup and thin... CANDICE GLOVER It's been phenomenal, but everybody keeps congratulating me on my resurgence and my big comeback... BETTY WHITE I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on ... MIKE GODWIN I think about the characters I've created and then I sit down and start typing and see what they... TOM CLANCY All I would say is that when I've been very down or having kind of a tough time in my life, cert... RUPERT FRIEND All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a s... BAT FOR LASHES I didn't have cable television growing up; there were only six channels you could watch then. Th... IGGY AZALEA I resolved to start journaling every day, and so far I've been journaling every day, and it'... CHARLIE WORSHAM I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been abl... TROIAN BELLISARIO People can have so many ill-conceived ideas about me based on the parts that I play. I've had gu... JENNIFER JASON LEIGH I want to fall in love, I think. I've never. I know. Everyone I know's been in love or in re... CARA DELEVINGNE I think about the characters I've created, and then I sit down and start typing and see what the... TOM CLANCY We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL You want to play every game as a goalie, ... If (Murray) wants me to start here or in Dallas I guess... MATHIEU GARON I'm just going to continue what I've been doing for the last eight or nine years, ... That's just to... DERRICK MASON It blows me away that my parents, they really weren't much into theater, but they recognized tha... CASEY NICHOLAW The little song and dance number at the end - that's me, my voice, howling out. It was a new exp... HUGH DANCY I've been ripping the Rolling Stones off with every song I write in some form or another. BRAD PAISLEY I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years -... COLIN HAY In the winter I separate, in the summer I marry. It's been 15 years since I've been getting ... VANESSA PARADIS Someone may tell me they drink six cans of regular soda every day. When they find out there are abou... DEE SANDQUIST I've done, like, eight pilots, and every time, everyone thinks it's going to go for 10 years... DAVID DENMAN When I start working on a batch of tunes - like roughly 10 solid tunes - I always know there'll ... RYAN ADAMS Every player had a roommate for out-of-town games, so I had to slip into the bathroom early each mor... RON SANTO They bring truck loads of stuff every other day. They'll be loading up trucks and unloading it. And ... KATIE WILLIAMS Shoot, I've never been in the playoffs, so I'm running out of time, and I know that I need to rely o... JEFF CIRILLO Hip hop was definitely, far and away, the primary influence for at least 10 years of my life. From a... ALEX EBERT My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I stea... CARL CRAWFORD These are just weird times, but then the last 20 years have been kind of weird for me. It's just a m... COLIN HAY I went to school in New York and grew up in and out of New York. I love it, and I miss it, and every... SARAH HAY But now - look, I have to take care of myself. I work out every day. I'm a dancer. I've alwa... VANESSA CARLTON I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written ... ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER We have to do regular checks of our staff every six months and we have found no lung or any other he... GIRISH LUTHRA For some reason, I find jogging incredibly boring, but yoga is the only thing I've been able to ... ALEXANDRA DADDARIO No one saw this coming. Now they know who we are and we are going to have to come back and work even... DAVE VANDIVER I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there... ROBERT GRIFFIN III I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG I keep the telephone of my mind open to peace, harmony, health, love, and
abundance. Then, whenever ... EDITH ARMSTRONG He blows me away every time I see him high-jump. CHARLIE DEAN I knew how to read a contract by 10 years old, but I didn't know what it meant for somebody to c... COREY FELDMAN Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and b... PADMA LAKSHMI I have 250 contacts, employees, and investors who, anytime they come across something relevant, will... GARRETT CAMP We hang out every day. If I'm going out I'll call him and see if he wants to go. Or if he's going so... ASHLEY THOMAS It's made my life easier this year. The first three years I had to suffer because they were up and d... JEFF RULAND As a governor, I've signed virtually every kind of pro-life legislation that we can sign under e... MIKE HUCKABEE They told me to play golf until I was 14 or 15, then give it up and concentrate strictly on school. ... HENRY LIAW Geno told them why I was there, and they all came down off the truck and looked me over — I guess ... DREXEL DEAL
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Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you. DELILAH A lot of times, in our culture and our society, we put romantic love somehow on a higher plane than ... DELILAH I founded 'Point Hope' so that I could accomplish some things I wanted to do for children wh... DELILAH It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help m... DELILAH 'Endless Love' is such a perfect love song for a wedding or for a Valentine, because that is... DELILAH I was attracted to the bad boys, the troublemakers. You know, the ones that were really cute but did... DELILAH Every single night, I try to get people to realize that love is what is most important, and that the... DELILAH I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they neve... DELILAH I have a card catalogue in my brain of every lyric of every sappy love song ever written. DELILAH Well, people can get advice almost anywhere, but they can't find a companion almost anywhere. An... DELILAH We chronicled the events in our lives in photography. DELILAH SUE BRASHEAR I'm a gypsy. A rogue. Wicked as they come. DELILAH S. DAWSON I think it's more readily available to students. There was nothing like that when we were small. DELILAH SUE BRASHEAR She had become a very important part of our lives, and we loved her. She gave me confidence that jus... DELILAH SUE BRASHEAR