That's one strength that Stevie has. She's really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
I'll never forget the day that I was told I would have to have a mastectomy. My reaction to the words was total denial.
They are words you don't easily forget: I don't have good news.
I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
The minor choices we make are themselves a kind of vote. Our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.
I'm a Words With Friends dork!
On the last drafts, I focus on the words themselves, including the rub of vowels and consonants, stressed and unstressed syllables. Yet even at this stage I'm often surprised. A different ending or a new character shows up and I'm back to where I began, letting the story happen, just trying to stay out of the way.
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
Well, the great thing for me about poetry is that in good poems the dislocation of words, that is to say, the distance between what they say they're saying and what they are actually saying is at its greatest.
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.
Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.
It was a very emotional dinner... Everyone shared personal stories about her and gave her words of encouragement and inspiration. Everyone tried to remain positive.
I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying.
In every song, there is a vocal element that doesn't have any words. I wanted to play around with how emotive and expressive my voice could be.
In other words, the celebrity gets out of hand, and if you're not careful, you will forget what you are about - and that is you are about making music that people want to hear.
If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can't with words, that's a really beautiful thing.
The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding.
Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.
Words are all we have.
Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.
It seemed uncanny that words, spread across a page just so, had the power to transport me to another time or place. But they could.
I wonder sometimes if I've got in the habit of only being courageous when someone else has written the words I have to say.
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens.
You will find my last words in the blue folder.
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: 'Tell me! Tell me!' The stories choose me.
After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead.
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.
