The good news is that even minimal activity can significantly extend life.
When I find a cover song that I like, I'll work away at it until I kind of believe that I wrote it.
If anyone comes along, I'm more than happy to welcome them, but I'm not interested in world domination.
I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
Cruel to be kind means that I love you.
I knew how the suits used to talk about the artists, with barely concealed contempt. So I knew what was waiting for me round the corner. Because I wasn't one of those very unusual people like Neil Diamond or Elton John, whose careers just seem to span the decades. I knew I wasn't one of them.
I work very hard on getting the songs as direct and examined as I can before I go in the studio.
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there.
If you look at literacy tests in the South, for example, they were absurdly difficult and didn't measure literacy. They were simply measuring whether or not you were black. So at every moment when we've said, hey, we don't want certain people to vote because they are not educated enough, it is often simply become a way of excluding black and brown people.
But all good things come to an end, often a sad angry miserable end. The cause for such an end can usually be whittled down to one of three things: money, sickness, love lost.