Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the "moral behavior" as "behavior that tends toward survival".
I'm not a practicing kabbalist. I'm not a spiritual master. I'm not a rabbi. I don't - but it's part of who I am.
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way
I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.
People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.
The inspiration for this movie [Something New] was this Newsweek article that came out a couple of years ago that talks about 42. 4 percent of black women in America aren't married. Black women are shooting up the corporate ladder way faster than our black male counterparts. And (black men) are either dating outside their race, in jail or dying. And so if you want to have a family, you want to be married, you have to look at other options.
You are my mate, Ria. In my soul. You are my mate. ~ Mercury
Try to make things that can become better in other people’s minds than they were in yours.
I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.