There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.
Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.
Today has never happened and it doesn't frighten me.
I'm not as religious as some people about "the album. " To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that's 45 minutes. You had A-side songs and B-side songs; I always loved the first song on side B. And there's nothing wrong with that. Prog albums of the 70s adapted to that format very much. But not all musicians want to create 45 minutes of music that has to be listened to in chronological order.
Love is a two way dream.
Everything that a guy says once, you have to say five times.
You're a coward if you don't stand up. Not for you, but for women. Say something.
What's New Orleans without music? And what's music without dancing?
John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him. We were in the middle of a scene and [Selma director] Ava DuVernay calls, "Cut," and then he literally just came in. He just came walking in. I just froze. I can't explain the feeling. Seeing somebody who was literally a living hero. He was a hero.
But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.
Sixty-five million years ago the dinosaurs had a bad day.