If you would not be laughed at, be the first to laugh at yourself.
You don't have to forego education to do anything. Even if you want to go to the NBA, you should read.
I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.
I think we're at a moment in history where all the rules are out the window; it's not about "Here's a single, and then let it build for a couple of months and then put out an album. " Doing a common project Supa Dups we're having fun thinking about how we can improvise and make it fun for people to be fans of the music.
If you want to be taken seriously, you almost have to act really serious.
I've always felt that singing is half technical, half taxing. You've got words, a melody, and an instrument, and you have to do justice to the words. You're just a medium for people to feel the song.
If you don't have an idea, you can defer to someone else. It's like having a baby with someone - it's not a clone of you, but it's partly you.
The "norm" for humanity is love. Brutality is an aberration. We are not sinners by nature. We learn to be bad. We are taught to stray from our good paths. We are made to be crazy by other people who are also crazy and who draw for us a map of the world which is ugly, negative, fearful, and crazy.
I have occasionally thought that some [TV] hosts have needed treatment, and some of these hosts have even admitted they could benefit from therapy. Having said that, I think most people can benefit from treatment. Those who need it and refuse to get it generally have the most "issues.
My picture-poems are linguistic margins on visual atolls.
Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.