Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed.
It feels really great to be popular.
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
I'm never satisfied with what I do.
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
I could never be like Hitchcock and do only one kind of movie. Anything that's good is worthwhile.
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started.
If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition.