Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes - Page 2

I love children. I'd prefer to be around children much more than adults, actually. And I like animals, too. I'm just really into beings who are at ease with themselves.

There's no hierarchy in suffering. I think songs that are transcendent are the ones where everyone can feel something from it, you know?

I just try to tell a story with a song, and be able to try to transmit the emotion to you. That's all I'm really trying to do.

I watch documentaries for information. I watch films to be entertained.

I'm always tryin' to do something new, tryin' to look like a beginner.

I feel that musicians are in a fellowship, and that fellowship is a responsibility.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

Sometimes people ask what it was like when I got to meet Mick Jagger, and I must admit that you just try and chill out and be your best self around anyone that you meet.

It's funny, I think after you are a star like Sting and you no longer think you need any guidance or aid - it would be great to see those stars work with other songwriters.

I dabble in the jazz world, which is male-­dominated. If you had two women playing together, it became a shtick. It becomes a "girl group," and it has to be something cutesy. That's hard to contend with.

Definitely dub is in my body forever. I think I hear everything through a dub filter. Even when I play rock music, I play through a dub filter.

I'm a true believer that unless you're Prince or Stevie Wonder - and even Prince is showing that he needs help - not everybody can produce themselves. I'm definitely not that person.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

Yes, violence begets more violence, but historically this has been the way of the world.

If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.

Allow the artist to finish the piece of work before you critique it.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

Our leaders and Osama Bin Laden all claim to do the right thing in the name of God. I question that. I wonder if that God is worth the life of another human-being.

I'm really good at melodic and sonic things, but I don't really think I have anything to say. But I really enjoy the puzzle-making of taking words and adding a melody to them.

I think all musicians should understand that you have chosen not to be a soldier but a musician.

No one knows anything for sure.

The blowing thing is something that you either have a predilection for or not. And I don't have that thing. It was just unsanitary. I couldn't do it. I am a complete germaphobe.