Really I just want to get on with my job, which is to pretend to be lots of different people. Simple as that.
You think you know everything about a person, but the truth often comes as a surprise.
I know paradise has many gates, just as hell does. One has to learn to distinguish between them, or one is lost.
People always leave traces. No person is without a shadow.
Justice doesn't only mean that the people who commit crime are punished. It also means that we can never give up seeking the truth.
We don't have time to argue. Nobody has time.
Many people make the mistake of confusing information with knowledge. They are not the same thing. Knowledge involves the interpretation of information. Knowledge involves listening.
I tried to stay away from the Euro beats, and not go totally pop. Instead, I wanted to take the Quincy Jones approach. The record pays homage to the Stevie Wonders, the Michael Jacksons, the Sam Cookes. I wanted to put that classic essence of R&B and soul with the new age of music now. There’s a lot of live instruments, and a lot less Auto-Tune. I really wanted to demonstrate my vocal ability, creating the vibe of me singing along with a band.
During the Eighties, when I was hurting for money, I thought, "Hang on a minute - I can paint. " I was living in New York and I thought it would get the grocery money coming in, and it escalated from there.
Vince Lombardi says, you know, "In my life, there are three things: God, family and the Green Bay Packers, in that order. For me, it's God, family and Yahoo!, in that order.
We are now heading down a centuries-long path toward increasing the productivity of our natural capital - the resource systems upon which we depend to live - instead of our human capital.