If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work.
I have a wonderful family: My parents are churchgoing, salt-of-the-earth Southern people. They gave me a lot of love and are so unaffected by fame.
The only things that are really permanent are love, family, friendship, and that is a lesson. At the end of the day, that's really what it boils down to. The rest of it is just stuff.
People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
It was not possible to broadcast any of that because of an agreement between Jackson and the family. Our legal advice was that we could not broadcast it.
There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.
One of the biggest problems out there that I hear from my friends in the business community is that there's no lending, that it's tough to get a loan today.
If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.
The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
When I started working on Southwest Airlines, I kid you not, only people flying on business and very wealthy people ever flew.
I'm an indie artist with major distribution, so one foot in the extreme major music business and one foot in the abyss of indie artists.
Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.
Even for the people in the business who are real music lovers it's really about putting things in the right boxes, and my style doesn't fit into a box.
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
My dad knows every single accent from being an old Yiddish grandpa to being Indian or Jamaican. It was very cool to grow up with that.
And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.
I just want everyone out there to know that I'm super-awesome and a great guy and really cool to talk to and that I appreciate all the support.
I definitely do like change. I don't know if my hairstyles reflect that, but I don't like the same old thing all the time.
I am not about to let the people who so mismanaged the state budget now try to manage local government.
