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Macy Gray Quotes
• I read so many things about me that are off. People think I'm out of it a lot-like I'm on another planet or I space out a lot-but I really don't.
• I was in jail. It teaches you a good lesson when you're locked up. They literally take your freedom away. There's nothing sexy about that. I learnt my lesson. I would never, ever go back.
• I write in the studio.
• I'm mixing my third album, The Trouble With Being Myself. It's a spoof on Reality TV shows, the government, corporate fat cats.
• I've read some things about me that have hurt my feelings.
• Becoming famous and selling a lot of records doesn't change a thing.
• I get a lot of ideas when I'm writing with my band, when we're jamming.
• I hate it because you go to a party to be seen, to be cool, not to party. In LA, everything is about where you go. Everybody has little cliques.
• I have a production company and we've been developing a few stories. I have a lot of really great ideas, but I don't know if I'm going to end up writing them.
• It's about being yourself in the public eye. That can really be misunderstood sometimes. I'm not always accepted by the masses.
• It's rough and tumble like any family with children. You've gotta get your priorities straight. It can get a little bananas.
• My favorite rock star is Diana Ross. She kind of invented the whole diva rock star thing.
• My oldest little girl actually wants to be a singer.
• Saturdays at 5:00 P.M, I get the whole roller rink to myself.
• Slam magazine is what got my little boy reading, and Kobe Bryant was on the cover, so I love him. I really hope the media doesn't ruin it for him.
• To be able to make music for a living, it's a lot of fun. I'm having a ball.
• You could either go the traditional way or the other way. I went the other way.
• Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am.
• Being God would be the ultimate.
• Say you order roasted chicken and they serve it fried. That's not cool. You have to get it roasted like you want, or you leave. Satisfaction is crucial.
• The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
• Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
• You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
• I get misinterpreted and misunderstood a lot.
• I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
• I have three babies. They're the best thing. And I get to see the world. I make a lot more money than I used to and I get to make records.
• I was in 7th grade and I went to a pool party. I had on this bikini and it kept slipping up my butt. That was embarrassing.
• I wouldn't call myself a Valley girl, but I have a really great house.
• I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.
• I've never met anyone that is their image.
• If I were God for a day, no one would be sick, hungry. Everybody would have lots of money, be in love, and all the girls could weigh exactly how much they wanted. And girls wouldn't have periods.
• It's like any other job: there's a method to it and it's really important to get that down. I'm still working on it, I got a lot to learn.
• LA is sexy and easy. it's easy to move around and get to know people out here. Everybody knows where to go and who to go with. The weather is real symbolic of LA.
• My life is different than when I first started out, when I made my first album. I had different things to say. I learned a lot about music.
• People tell kids a lot of things because they don't think they're really listening or they don't think they really know anything. When you're a kid you get a lot of information.
Macy Gray Albums
2007 - Big
2005 - Live In Las Vegas
2004 - The Very Best Of Macy Gray
2003 - The Trouble With Being Myself
2001 - The Id
1999 - On How Is Life
Macy Gray Hit Singles
2007 - Shoo Be Doo
2007 - Finally Mad Me Happy
2004 - Love Is Gonna Get You
2003 - She Ain't Right For You
2003 - When I See You
2001 - Sexual Revoultion
2001 - Sweet Baby
2000 - Why Didn't You Call Me
2000 - Still
1999 - I Try
1999 - Do Something
Macy Gray Filmography
2005 - Domino
2005 - Shadowboxer
2005 - The Crow:Wicked Prayer
2004 - Lightning In A Bottle
2004 - Around The World In 80 Days
2004 - Lackawanna Blues
2003 - Gang of Roses
2003 - Scary Movie 3
2002 - Spiderman
2001 - Training Day