If there is a perceived difference between what you expect from others and what you expect from yourself, it will eventually erode your influence.
One bush, they say, can never hide two thieves.
Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.
No man is really honest; none of us is above the influence of gain.
High thoughts must have high language.
A man's homeland is wherever he prospers.
The gods, my dear simple fellow, are a mere expression coined by vulgar superstition. We frown upon such coinage here.
My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.
Can you believe that, to say that ours is the only path when the fundamental thing in art is freedom! In art, there are millions of paths—as many paths as there are artists.
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.
I have a ballet barre in my gym. I turn the music up so loud that the walls are pulsating, and I go for it for an hour.