If you truly are going to be a writer, there must be somewhere within you the drive, the desire, to put pen to paper, fingers to keyboard, and actually write.
Stop the violence! Can't we all just get along?
Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released.
Not a Harvard-type education,. . . Just a not-sticking-up-a-liquor-store-type education.
If a kid calls his grandma "Mommy" and his mama "Pam", he's going to jail!
We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.
I literally don't know what I'm going to do next. That's successful.
Everybody always says that I'm the girl next door, which makes me think that y'all must have a lot of weird next-door neighbours.
If I was talking about making a song special, I probably meant getting the lyrics and arrangement together, or getting some instrument that's going to tie the whole thing together. That can take months, or it can happen really fast.
Only the man who has known freedom Can define his prison.
They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.