That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
I woke up one morning, went downstairs, said 'Good morning' to my mother and nearly scared both of us to death. '
Elton John's opinion turned the label's opinion around, all in a day.
I try to tell a story musically in a song.
There's a time when people give their words to each other it has to mean something. I'm a street cat. I've belonged in gangs and when you had a partner, you went down with your partner whether you won the fight or lost it. You went down together.
No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
I didn't mind working in the clubs, but I resented it being a club where pimps hang out. Because the music that I create is of a higher intellect than that. It not only encompasses pimps, but whores, ballplayers, executives. . . everybody.
Far out in the ocean, where the water is as blue as the prettiest cornflower, and as clear as crystal, it is very, very deep; so deep, indeed, that no cable could fathom it: many church steeples, piled one upon another, would not reach from the ground beneath to the surface of the water above. There dwell the Sea King and his subjects.
I always choose music based on whatever the scene calls for, or whatever my mood is supposed to be.
Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance. But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing. Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort. But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing.
Goals are to be set clear without frills. Do not be deterred and take reality as it is, not as it should be.