The greatest business people I've met are determined to get it right no matter what the cost.
Honolulu is a melting pot.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
[On Malaysia:] Mr. Darwin says so truly that a visit to the tropics (and such tropics) is like a visit to a new planet. This new wonder-world, so enchanting, tantalising, intoxicating, makes me despair, for I cannot make you see what I am seeing!
Most entertainment is trying to get you. It's tested, like toothpaste.
Until you have courted the bluebills in the snow, you have not tasted of the purer delights of waterfowling
we have to suffer mosquitoes the size of blackbirds.