I left my record label, Polydor, by mutual agreement, but I'm going to carry on with my singing career.
Try not to have idols: they are interchangeable and lead to a wantonness that is easily mistaken for love.
If you have to make mistakes, make them good and big, don't be middling if you can help it.
I believe that the only possible reason for our being here is to serve in some form or another but that the form is not always readily found or recognized. And I've noticed that those who refuse to serve often wind up as slaves.
. . . lapses of memory are only attractive when you've encouraged them, not when they take you unawares.
Am I incapable of living with the one sole guarantee, that I'm still here? Am I afraid of living because I fear death?
Success and failure are greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about.
Awash in a flood of hostility and despair, they battled and railed and shattered their bodies on one another, unable to find one strand, one sobering swallow of solace.
Come on, when does it come to the point where your name can't come up in trade talks? Willie Mays got traded. Pedro Martinez got traded. So what? That's part of the game.
Of course, I was a little concerned about it being over two hours [in "Aquarius" ]. "Neighboring Sounds" was two hours and eleven minutes. This is two hours and twenty-five minutes, and I did try bringing it down. For instance, I considered cutting out the sequence with the family looking at pictures.
Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech, I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth, To bellow with the damn'd!