I mean, I think I'm doing a lot better than other people that have had shoulder surgery in their careers. Some people have never come back.
Sometimes you get caught up in what's going on around you. The reality is that you are just a regular person. At some point, the career will be over, the bright lights turn off. That can come back to haunt you if you're not just a regular guy.
Some people want fame, popularity and huge sales. I've always hoped to have a really long career. So I've tried to make each of my creative decisions and business decisions to allow for longevity. As a side effect I got really famous and really big. I didn't realize the two could go together.
There are a great number of people from New Jersey who go on to have pretty successful careers.
Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.
The last thing in the world someone should do is respond to critics. If I did that I'd be neutered by now--I would be in the nearest insane asylum wearing 15 straitjackets. My whole career has been nothing but: "You shouldn't do it that way, you bigot, you sexist, you homophobe, you pig, you right-wing warmonger, you whatever.
I grew up in the Midwest; you don't know any screenwriters. It didn't seem like a realistic career possibility.
After Bruno Walter, my career went in leaps and bounds. I have had 35 years of a career that is just incredible, and a wonderful time all over the world.
I consider myself to be very fortunate in my career, my timing has worked out.
It's very difficult to juggle two careers, unless you're going to have someone put it all together for you. Because you're on TV, somebody just gives you a record deal - that's not how I'd want to get it, because it's just not real.
I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.
I am incredibly proud of the many journalists I have worked with throughout my career and the great campaigns that we have fought and won.
Coaches give you too much information. Ive been allowed to develop that intuitive ability in my career and lifetime.
I've certainly done some turkeys along the way and made some dumb choices in my career, mostly early on. I'm one of the lucky ones who got to make a lot of mistakes very early when no one was paying attention.
T. I. 's my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.
When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose.
There are some careers that will develop your mind more than others. In the study of enlightenment, it is most important to develop your mind and your body.
My career is media. One can turn on the TV or look at a magazine and see me.
Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.
Maybe at this stage in my career, it's from that younger generation that I have most to learn.