Invest in businesses any idiot could run, because someday one will.
Try and stay sober. Until the curtain call. And for God's sake, have fun. Don't suffer for your art. Just have fun.
You're only two years older than me, darling. Where have you been all my life?
Unless you can surround yourself with as many beautiful things as you can afford, I don`t think life has very much meaning.
Sometimes you have to look into a mirror and look at the worst you could have been if you're ever going to know the best you were meant to be.
Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.
A truly great structure, one that is meant to stand the tests of time, never disregards its environment. A serious architect takes that into account. He knows that if he wants presence, he must consult with nature.
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.
Take time everyday to shift from immersion in human-centric thinking to ecoexperience.
The way music reflects real life, the way that painstakingly, over the years, what I have said is really a metaphor for what's happening to America. It used to be about, or tried to be at the very beginning, about what was right. It has stopped being what was right for America; it started being about what was right for companies that are in control.
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.