What song is it you want to hear?
If you know how rich you are, you are not rich. But me, I am not aware of the extent of my wealth. That's how rich we are.
I hardly can sleep. I feel that my target now is really to save Mother Earth for humanity. And it's doable.
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
I am my little people's star and slave. When I go out into the barrios, I get dressed because I know my little people want to see a star. Other presidents' wives have gone to the barrios wearing house dresses and slippers. That's not what people want to see. People want someone they can love, someone to set an example.
I get so tired listening to one million dollars here, one million dollars there, it's so petty.
There are greater depths and obscurities, greater intricacies and perplexities, in an elaborate and well-written piece of nonsense, than in the most abstruse and profound tract of school divinity.
You can't comfort the afflicted with afflicting the comfortable.
It is really not the number of things you do , but the efficiency of each separate action that counts.
Obviously I've got to work hard to have my own label, but it all benefits me in a different kind of way. I can say "No," and nobody's going to be pissed off or breathe down my neck. I can draw the line and take breaks when I want to. I try not to. And getting to develop other artists is something I've always wanted to do.