We elected a President, not a Pope.
Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music.
At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.
I can't do all that riddly diddly stuff. I'm not good enough. It's all about not playing.
A lot of the time there is a lot of melancholy in the lyrics.
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.
Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle; they read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy any more. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.
You have to make sure you have the characters you want. That's really the most complicated part.
Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.