I think to be a good songwriter, you have to be able to play an instrument.
I divide the world into learners and non-learners.
I divide the word into learners and nonlearners. There are people who learn, who are open to what happens around them, who listen, who hear the lessons. When they do something stupid, they don't do it again. And when they do something that works a little bit, they do it even better and harder the next time. The question to ask is not whether you are a success or a failure, but whether you are a learner or a nonlearner.
I don't divide the world into the weak and the strong, or the successes and failures. . . I divide the world into the learners and non-learners.
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection.
McWorld is a product of popular culture driven by expansionist commerce. Its template is American, its form style. Its goods are as much images as matériel, an aesthetic as well as a product line. It is about culture as commodity, apparel as ideology. Its symbols are Harley-Davidson motorcycles and Cadillac motorcars hoisted from the roadways, where they once represented a mode of transportation, to the marquees of global market cafés like Harley-Davidson's and the Hard Rock where they become icons of lifestyle.
Where once the student was taught that the unexamined life was not worth living, he is now taught that the profitably lived life is not worth examining.
Rejection always hurts, but having it come from my best friend was the worst.
Had drugs been decriminalized, crack would never have been invented and there would today be fewer addicts. . . The ghettos would not be drug-and-crime-infested no-man's lands. . . Colombia, Bolivia and Peru would not be suffering from narco-terror, and we would not be distorting our foreign policy because of it.
I decided it is better to scream. . . . Silence is the real crime against humanity.
I'd like to have made one of those big splashy Technicolor musicals with Rita Hayworth.