Some 95 percent of all sexual contact still occurs in permanent relationships. That's an impressive number.
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
I sang in church growing up. Memphis is the blues capital of the world, we like to say.
I'm completely removed from any hype that comes my way.
I'm not trying to sound pretentious, but we did sell 12 million records on the first album, so we did get paid a little bit.
I think the first half of my 20s I felt I had to achieve, achieve, achieve. A lot of men do this. I'm looking around now and I'm like, Where am I running?
One good idea is all you need to start a fortune.
I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.
To turn experience into speech - that is, to classify, to categorize, to conceptualize, to grammarize, to syntactify it - is always a betrayal of experience, a falsification of it; but only so betrayed can it be dealt with at all, and only in so dealing with it did I ever feel a man, alive and kicking.
For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.