I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
Whatever success I may have attained is due to the fact that since I was old enough to work at all, my ambition has never deserted me.
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.
I love an old-school gentleman. Picking me up for dates, sending flowers, holding the door open, I love it all.
I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.
I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance.
Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music.
I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.
I started off with classical music, and I got into jazz when I was about 14 years old. And I've been playing jazz ever since.
I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.
In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
Men think they already know me. But as they get closer and closer, they become that 14-year-old again. A lot of men do stammer and blush a little bit.
I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.
Write in such a way as that you can be readily understood by both the young and the old, by men as well as women, even by children.
The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.
I was two years old when my mom put me in mommy and me classes. I always had a lot of energy so it was the perfect fit!
