The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies.
I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone. '
As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, she's still on TV.
Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment. '
Jobless people will have no self-confidence. And they feel they are worthless because when you don't have a job you have to rely on someone.
I love audiences, but they're not there to drive the bus. Whenever you ask opinions or anticipate opinions you can get pretty terrible art, or non-art. You need a single guiding intelligence, even in a collaborative form.
I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.