In every government there are three sorts of power: the legislative; the executive in respect to things dependent on the law of nations; and the executive in regard to matters that depend on the civil law.
I don't know anything about the history of music.
I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.
When people say, "Show your face, you're not ugly. " I want to say, "I know. I'm not doing it because I think I'm ugly; I'm trying to have some control over my image. And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also I'd like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on ten pounds or I have a hair extension out of place. " Most people don't have to be under that pressure, and I'd like to be one of them. I don't go on Twitter. Because when people say things like, I don't know, "I hope you get cancer and die," it hurts my feelings.
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are. '
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.
We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man. . . and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.
I was really, really lucky because I have always worked. It hasn't always been consistent, but I have always worked.
Without love of the land, conservation lacks meaning or purpose, for only in a deep and inherent feeling for the land can there be dedication in preserving it.
You have to love something and have a passion for it to be disciplined. My commitment was purely to golf