A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
Don't believe everything you see on VH1.
Drummers shouldn't just think of themselves as drummers. If you're going to be a musician, you should expand your horizons, compose things, and work with other instruments.
People are disappointed when they hear my American accent because they regard 'The Police' as an English band but I've clung to my American-ness all the way.
Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists.
That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.
Music has an immediate effect. If you want to go beyond that and look underneath, film is a good way of explaining.
Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration.
In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake.
A man don't always have to eat what he's standing life. If he wants, a man can fix a meal of his own choosing.
I have been urged by the earnest pleas of thousands of people to enter this race. Therefore, I hereby declare my candidacy for Mayor of Chicago.