Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.
Grief and memory go together. After someone dies, that's what you're left with. And the memories are so slippery yet so rich.
The littlest thing can have the strongest connection when you're grieving. Your Proustian, poetic nerve is turned up to ten.
I arrive at the theatre four hours before the beginning of the performance. I must get accustomed to the hall even if I know it well.
I used to cry myself to sleep every night. I missed singing so much. And performing. Man, I missed it so much.
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham.
I'm hypoglycemic, so if I don't eat I start to get really blood-sugar crazy. I feel like I'm going insane.
We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly.
Honestly, I can't tell you what I what I would be doing if I wasn't chairman of GM, because this is all I've done.
And for well over a hundred years our politicians, statesmen, and people remembered that this was a republic, not a democracy, and knew what they meant when they made that distinction.
It was under Wilson, of course, that the first huge parts of the Marxist program, such as the progressive income tax, were incorporated into the American system.
The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture.
This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.
I took a huge risk leaving baseball, because I was predicted to play in the big leagues. I'm kind of a prototypical second baseman.
There's no question that a vinyl record is a lot nicer than a CD. It's nicer to hold in your hands, you can do more with it.
People assume I sell a lot more records than I actually do. I really don't sell any.
I will go through these style phases. I think it's confusing in some ways. People like bands to be really consistent.
I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities.
Michael Jackson had a stable vision. He had a strong message, not only pop. People just fainted at his concert.
I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.
North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.
