It would be a terrible mistake to go through life thinking that people are the sum total of what you see.
I tell my assistant “I'm busy! unless it's Jesus or Taylor (Swift) don't bother me”
One of my rules is, if Jesus or Taylor [Swift] calls, I take the call.
We will have a new Taylor album in October. The record is genius. I can't wait for the fans to hear it.
The fans reaction to the record (Red) is incredible. Taylor has been reading many tweets lately and wanted to thank her fans with what they ask for the most. We're planning to record the 10 Minute Version of All Too Well and a music video. She's busy with touring right now but we will find some time.
The way I wrote it is a nice and enjoyable way to write stories, to pretend to say something when you're really saying something else. "Hey guys, come, I'll take you a football match. " They all come - and you suddenly take them to watch theater play on the stage instead. In Istanbul Istanbul, I pretend to talk about torture and politics, but I don't actually. Instead I talk about hope and hopelessness, darkness and light, good and evil, love and separation.
European society has always been divided into classes in a way that American society never has been. A European writer considers himself to be part of an old and honorable tradition--of intellectual activity, of letters--and his choice of a vocation does not cause him any uneasy wonder as to whether or not it will cost him all his friends. But this tradition does not exist in America.
Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.
There is as far as I know, no example in history, of any state voluntarily ceding power from the centre to its constituent parts.