Success gave me confidence as an artist. And now I'm able to do what I want without anybody thinking it's dumb.
A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.
The entire world is now a rival to Silicon Valley. No country, state, region, nor city has a lock on innovation in technology anymore.
I love to read about healthy eating and preach to my husband, who doesn't listen. Now I'm trying to teach it to my daughters.
Yes, I still love 'South Park,' but I also love morning TV now.
When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.
I ate everything - a lot of pizza, bags of chips and boxes of cookies. Now I love chicken, that's all I eat.
I love being on set, because I've basically grown up on a set. And now I love to contribute as a director and help steer the ship, if you will.
We deliberately used elements from Brazilian music and from African and Asian music. Now people can hear that but then it sounded so abstract, they couldn't hear it.
I've grown up on gospel and blues music, and now it's a huge part of who I am.
All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.
Soul music as we've always known it hasn't changed. There are different players now with different attitudes, but there is nothing new being done musically.
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online.
We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.
I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land.
Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.
And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music.
At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.
