Democracy in the studio is overrated. What you wind up getting is compromise on everybody's part, which means that nobody has their way, and that means nobody wins, including the fans.
But down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid.
The fountain of youth with the youthful young musician is one meaning, and the fountain of youth with the youthful energy of the leader is another meaning.
It is easier to make our wishes conform to our means than to make our means conform to our wishes.
Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore.
When I tell you that you’re beautiful, I don’t just mean your appearance. I mean all of you; who and what you are, is beautiful.
I'm a real simple person. I believe that the Bible means what it says, and says what it means.
The only obligation any artist can have is to himself. His works means nothing, otherwise. It has no meaning.
I'm so fascinated by the human longing for meaning. The way we relate romantically to each other is so much to do with our longing for meaning as well.
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
When someone puts an end to something, it doesn't mean that he gave up, it means that thing is not taking him anywhere.
'Elitist' doesn't need to mean wealthy and conservative; it can also mean specialised and rarefied, and that's no bad thing.
Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
I didn’t mean to scare you,’ Nico said bitterly. ‘I didn’t mean to … to poison another friendship. I’m sorry.
The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.
Being single doesn't mean you're weak, it means that you're strong enough to wait for the right person.
It is okay to be an outsider, a recent arrival, new on the scene - and not just okay, but something to be thankful for... Because being an insider can so easily mean collapsing the horizons, can so easily mean accepting the presumptions of your provi...
I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.
To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.
Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.
If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside.
