We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
We always lead with hits. If you want to have success, you have to be riding a hit.
Music is a big gift opportunity. We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that.
When the wine is ready, that's when we'll drink.
To make a record requires a strategy; it's not just throwing somebody in the studio and seeing how it goes. Some artists are self-contained, but they still need advice about producers and collaborations and single choice. They need an army and a perspective and creative friction, because nobody has all the ideas.
My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.
Running, I soon realized, was the best way to stay ahead of fear.
It seemed to me that a lot of people started going to art school recently because they thought they could be famous and make a lot of money. They might be in for a bad turn.
It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.