I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.
Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
I close my eyes when I sing so I can feel the song better.
L.A. is so isolated and unhip in a way; it gives you room to figure out who you are and explore more personal stuff.
I feel like kids are the perfect psychic investigators of their parents, and kids understand their parents' unconscious better than the parents ever do.
My public persona is badly warped and bears little resemblance to the person those closest to me know.
The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!
We started training a month before the movie started and then by five months in, we were at our peak shape.
Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it's something musical or a traditional joke.
On Friday I was in Washington for a meeting with Administration officials. In the course of that meeting, they requested that I 'step aside' as CEO of GM, and so I have.
I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar.
I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.
In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made.
I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.
I rarely ever respond to misquotes and wrong information. Plus, it only serves to bring attention to the matter.
I think English people were a lot better at breakdancing than they were at making records.
Teens look at cause-related efforts with some scrutiny. They know they are often a target market, but it has to make sense to them.
I saw 'The Godfather' in London when it came out in 1972 and loved it. I've seen it probably 20 times - I always find something new.
People have had the idea to do a '90s alternative tour for a long time. I didn't come up with that; I was the first guy to basically say it was time.
I have willpower and determination. I am very resilient, like rock.
My fat cells have a memory like Einstein! I'm proof that surgery is not a magic potion. There are many ways to sabotage it.