What music does to me, it helps me balance my inner pressure so that I can deal with the forces outside that are trying to pressure me.
I consider my music to be Progressive Synth Pop, which says nothing about what it sounds like, but does describe my basic approach.
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
I try to give to my music the spiritual quality, very deep in the soul, which does something even if you are not realizing it or analyzing it - that's the duty of the music.
Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.
A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.'
Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, he consider but as harness.
No woman has ever been an authentic genius of the stature of men, but that does not enrage me.
Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
I deeply believe that marriage is by nature between a man and a woman, but that conviction does not prevent me from recognising that other forms of affective relationships exist.
I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
I'm the worst at picking what movies are going to do well. I have no idea. I'm really surprised if a movie I like does well.
Joyce Brabner: Why does everything in my life have to be such a complicated disaster?
Rachel Dawes: What chance does Gotham have when the good people do nothing?
John Bender: Does Barry Manilow know that you raid his wardrobe?
Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We're all limited by our perspective.
A captain who does not know where he wants to sail, there is no wind on Earth that will bring him there.
I think I'm okay at everything and not spectacular at any one thing that Kaggle does.
