People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.
My fans are the best in the world! They've grown up with me and stayed with me through this entire journey.
I watch my contemporaries, and they love to live in the studio and I don't. I have a life. I treat it as a 9-to-5. I try to create something new every day, and then I get on with my life.
I kind of hate the fact that people are always trying to put you into a category. I hate walls, and I hate boundaries. I don't like that. I listen to everything.
Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.
I'm never satisfied with what I do.
I was a nerd academically. But I was also an athlete and a musician. I never wanted to be shut out of any situation. I think it was that more than anything.
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
Happiness, that's obviously different for everybody, but what I call my joy, the thing that makes me feel incredibly satiated, is my family, and then I get to go and play out all of my ideas and feelings through all these different characters.
The strength of a good friendship that goes the distance will be unconditional love.
. . . the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.