There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
I think it's a lot harder when you're opening. You really have to win people over.
I think you've got to worry when you start flying flags. There's a lot of political connotations that come with waving flags around the stage. But the flag will make an appearance. I think it's more likely to be draped around an instrument than waved around.
I think there is always that kind of thing when you're opening that you just want to blow the headline band away.
I don't even know what success is.
It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London.
You read some good reviews and then you read a bad one, and the bad one pisses you off but there's nothing you can do. It's just an opinion.
The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new. ' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.
If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.
The happiest marriages are full of alternative lives, lived in the head, unknown to the partner.
Dig -- the mostly uncouth -- language of grace.