As far as I'm concerned, I'm a middle-of-the-road moderate and the rest of you are crazy.
If someone doesn't believe enough in your product to put money in to it, then you should rethink how good the product is.
My parents from a very young age raised my sister and I under a pressure to achieve. Theyre both attorneys. So good marks, getting through university, there was a huge emphasis and pressure to do well and keep going.
Ive always been pretty energetic.
I'm very goal oriented.
I don't think I responded very well to the sudden celebrity, the sudden fame, and the loss of privacy.
And, again, I'm the first one to say that I'm not going be successful at everything.
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me.
I'm no reporter. That's for the man with a suit and tie. I'm just relating to my people the best way I know, bringing them what they know and what they see out on the streets. I'm bringing it to them in a musical way, through a way of partying rather than violence. Now they can party their way through their problems.
The national anthem of hell is, "I Did It My Way. "
The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth.