If you want to build a high performance organization, you've got to play chess, not checkers.
It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.
Over and over again in my life, I find closeness to other people and proximity to other people really painful; that's part of my mental illness, social anxiety. Closeness to other people is really hard, but it's also a shame because it's all you want too. But it doesn't always work.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
When you're young and you play music, you have a peer group, you come out of a scene. There's a lot of people you know, and then you have some success, and it all goes away.
Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.
There is not a good or a bad cuisine, just the one you like the best.
A child's eyes, those clear wells of undefiled thoughtwhat on earth can be more beautiful? Full of hope, love and curiosity, they meet your own.
Faced with a choice of stepping up or stepping it down, we are going to step it down.