Peaceful coexistence cannot be limited to the powerful countries if we want to ensure world peace.
To rise above the crowd, you must discipline yourself unceasingly to the strict demand and realities of your ambition.
It's so important to listen to music, to listen again and again. Eat, sleep and drink music.
I have to play every day in order to keep absolute control over my form.
Blow your life through your horn.
I know that I haven't invented anything myself, that I am only a mixture of countless influences, and thanks to that I am able to find my own style of playing.
Eat, sleep and drink music.
You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.
I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.
I just try to eat as good as possible.
I think that the drama of people rising up demanding their own freedom is one that resonates very deeply with America. I think that President Barack Obama has tried and would like to find a way to relate to the Arab Spring, but I think he also wants to be, rightly, very careful that we don't take it over. It is very important that they own this. He is trying to influence it this way but without, "We're so never going to go to the extreme of Iraq and putting boots on the ground again. "