The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular, with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.
Think about it: Every educated person is not rich, but almost every education person has a job and a way out of poverty. So education is a fundamental solution to poverty.
Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.
A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.
I'm the kind of person, if I see something, like a funny video, I want to share it. With Twitter and Tumblr you can do that on a mass scale, and people get to know your personality.
I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart. I've met a lot of dramatic people who were stupid. But I've never met a funny person who wasn't smart.
I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.
The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
The Oscar made me a star, and I'm grateful. But I feel had I not won the Oscar I wouldn't have gotten into the messes I did in my personal life.
My personal life is in the spotlight, but people say what they want to say. The truth isn't in the spotlight, I should say. I'm in the spotlight, but not the truth.
Presents are symbolic. When you give them in your personal life, they should show that you are paying attention to the person to whom you're giving them.
I'm a very loyal and very private person when it comes to my personal life. But I obviously do have Twitter and Instagram, and I will share some of the things I'm doing.
My personal life, my normal life, is so important to me. To be able to go back to my personal life and leave characters behind is important; I don't keep them with me.
I have a personal life and a professional life, and there's no way to separate them; for a while I tried, but no one could find me.
Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.
It is very normal for people on the ground to look at somebody apparently walking in midair and thinking first that person is crazy and thinking secondly that person risks his or her life.
The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.
I don't talk about my personal life. But the relationships I've had have usually been with other musicians. It's just easier that way.