Artists like Bach and Beethoven erected churches and temples on the heights. I only wanted... to build dwellings for men in which they might feel happy and at home.
Every song I put on a record could be a single and I just pack my bags for it... and the minute it takes off, I'm not gonna be home for a while.
It's one thing to sit at home and write a piece with your guitar, and quite another to have it performed by four people. For me, it's always trial and error.
It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.
I'm a huge fan of home recording. I think it levels the playing field. You don't need $100,000 to record a studio CD.
At home, I'm lucky if I can write three or four hours before the phone starts ringing and the kids want to go to soccer.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.
You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.
Happiness is the absence of suffering. I think it's an interesting way of looking at it. I think the absence of suffering exists very rarely in the world we live in.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
In my imagination yes, I remember, when I was six years old, I was conducting all this concert in my house. But now it's real.
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that it's real.
The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.
There's certain songs that you're gonna record that you hope to touch people and change lives, and there's certain songs that you know that are not going to be that serious.
We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music.
Many a revolution started with the actions of a few. Only 56 men signed the Declaration of Independence. A few hanging together can lead a nation to change.
I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
At 140, 150, that's when the car starts floating. At 160, that's when you start seeing dead relatives. At 180, it's, like, terrifying and exciting.
