I did Showtime at the Apollo when I was 10, and it was the first time that Id ever performed on TV, and it felt great.
Weak thoughts, weak desires: he felt their force.
I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.
If only you understood the way I felt. . . it wouldn't help much because I don't really like you as a person.
I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere.
I felt a splinter of guilt wedge into my heart. Charlotte had hurt me; in return, I'd hurt Rob. Maybe that's what we do to the people we love: take shots in the dark and realize too late we've wounded the people we're trying to protect.
I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.
Love is the only unifier in the world. We've all felt exactly the same way. It'll make you crazy and it'll make you ecstatic and that's true for everyone.
I felt like a Tinker toy kid building my own self out of one of those toy building sets; for as she laid her life before me, I reassembled the tableau of her words like a picture puzzle, and as I did, so my own life was rebuilt.
I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him.
Cheer up! The worst effects of what we're doing won't be felt until after we're all dead
The things I felt. . . about certain painters of the past that. . . inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet. . . that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself. . . felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface. . . That's truly. . . the act of creation.
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I was just simply lost. I didn't know who I was; I didn't know really what I was doing here. I was meant to be a singer, but I just felt lost. That's when I went on the search for my birth family.
We had enough years in front of us to be serious and grown-up and respectable. Why rush it? But on the other hand we always complained when teachers and other adults treated us as kids. In fact there was nothing that annoyed me more. So it was a frustrating situation. What we needed was a two-sided badge that said 'Mature' on one side and 'Childish' on the other. Then at any moment we could turn it to whatever side we felt like being and the adults could treat us accordingly.
As I helped him up, I felt him shake all over, so I asked him to forgive me, without knowing what for, but that was my lot, asking forgiveness, I even asked forgiveness of myself for being what I was, what it was my nature to be.
Being this side of 40 feels like what I should have felt being this side of 25: in my body, in my heart, happy with my life, and OK with whatever bumps in the road present themselves.
I have felt darkness lead me by the hand Over the hill to greet the singing dawn.
I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because my job has never been to be a role model for young women or teenagers.
I just told the whole truth and that felt really incredible and really scary.
Before M2, I really felt self-conscious about some of my choices, and I was slotted into a category. At Rolling Stone, I was the alternative chick, and that was just the way it was. That did break me open a little bit, and that was maybe its legacy. And it's a nice one.