Our lives become trivial. And our capacity for magnificent causes and great worship dies.
Someone saved my life tonight, sugar bear, you almost had your hooks in me, didn't you dear?
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
The less I say the more my work gets done.
As a child, as a teenager, I was kind of not allowed to wear fashionable clothes.
Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same
From the start, I've always admired Eminem's thinking. That's the reason I wanted to appear on the Grammys with him when I was asked. Eminem has the balls to say what he feels and to make offensive things funny. That's very necessary today in America, with people being muzzled and irony becoming a lost art. Artists like Eminem who use their free speech to get a point across are vitally important. There just aren't many people in the world with balls that big and talent that awesome.
Sometimes we walk away from our big dreams; but then, this time our big dreams don't let us to go away!
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.
To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime that you have any disease, and disease meaning lack of ease, lack of flow. . . dis-ease. So any time there's disease, you're out of balance, whether it's jealousy, anger, greed, anxiety, fear.
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its occasional nastiness, not through argument but through feeling, and then to close the gap between you and everything that is not you, and in this way pass from feeling to meaning. It's not something that committees can do. It's not a task achieved by groups or by movements. It's done by individuals, each person mediating in some way between a sense of history and an experience of the world.