Embrace the hell out of personal responsibility.
To be an artist you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive. " The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
Contemporary American psychiatrist It is a happy talent to know how to play.
It's only his thumb brushing slowly across the lower edge of my lip, but it's as if time slows and the sweep of that thumb below my mouth takes forever. It is no spell that I know of, but it holds such magic, I can scarcely breath. He pulls his hand away fast, aware of what he's done. But his touch lingers.
Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins.
[Italian men] are like show poodles. Sometimes they look so good I want to applaud.