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For centuries, man believed that the sun revolves around the earth. Centuries later, he still thinks that time moves clockwise.
While I find that I can keep my nose out of other people's business, I do have a curiosity as to their non-business activities.
As to the Seven Deadly Sins, I deplore Pride, Wrath, Lust, Envy and Greed. Gluttony and Sloth I pretty much plan my day around.
U.S. Internal Revenue Service: an agency modeled after the revenue raising concepts of the 19th century economist, Jesse James.
Some day man will travel at the speed of light, of small interest to those of us still trying to catch up to the speed of time.
Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.
Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.
Do not be surprised when those who ignore the rules of grammar also ignore the law. After all, the law is just so much grammar.
When I heard Aretha, I could feel her emotional delivery so clearly. It came from down deep within. That's what I wanted to do.
Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death.
Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
Don't get me wrong. There's always situations where when it gets bigger than me, it's time to go talk to mama and daddy and God.
I'm fussy. I'm stubborn. I want all the little details and I don't want to look like anyone else - that to me is very important.
But that's the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions.
What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.
I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.
I like when people have Western style, but it's throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man.
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.
Who hasn't made mistakes? I once french kissed a dog at a party to try to impress what turned out to be a very tall 12 year old.
I carry a weapon. I got a death threat a few years ago and was really scared. But I don't want bodyguards. I am my own security.
When I first started making music, I wrote the lyrics first, but now, because the music has got kind of wilder, I've flipped it.
Sometimes two people stay together for the sake of the kids - two kids who sat under a full moon and pledged to be forever true.
The thing about family disasters is that you never have to wait long before the next one puts the previous one into perspective.
It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.
A holiday cocktail party is where some stranger will learn more about you in an hour than your spouse has learned in a lifetime.
Material success is always tempered by the recollection that there was some kind of happiness that was supposed to come with it.
I have a tendency, not that anyone I've ever dated I thought wasn't a good person, but sometimes you're not always a good match.
Lars [Ulrich] of Metallica is one of the worst drummers I've ever heard, but they hide it because they spend millions recording.
I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.
Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.
Sometimes you get so jaded, you don't have those initial connections and emotions with music, because you are promoting your own.
The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'
The only way to go beyond your fears is to grow beyond them and that always means challenging, overcoming and learning from them.
Never try to look into both eyes at the same time. Switch your gaze from one eye to the other. That signals warmth and sincerity.
I am so anti-people's opinions when I'm making a record, but when it's finished and I put it out there, I hope somebody likes it.
Yeah, well, artists are a lot like gangsters. They both know that the official version, the one everyone else believes, is a lie.
I wanted to make a traditional record that had a lot of art and showed my vulnerable side and showed things I'm passionate about.
You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.
By the time I recognize this moment, this moment will be gone. . . But I will bend the light, pretend that it somehow lingered on
So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game to find a way to say that life has just begun.
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there.
You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.
We never give up wanting things for ourselves, but there comes a day when what we want for ourselves is someone else's happiness.
The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?
Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest?
I'm like an old turtle these days. I don't run wide-open everywhere, but at the end of the day, I'll be where I'm supposed to be.
I've always been a thin girl. I'm not going to be fat, ever. Let's get that straight. Whitney is not going to be fat, ever. Okay?
In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.