Profile has half the publishing and they control and administer the publishing and distribute and own the records, so our group is a 10-point crew. But we got a lot of money off of the shows.
You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption to do that.
I don't get off on romantic parts. But I often think if I had had my dental work done early on, well, maybe.
In a big Bollywood romantic film, taking my shirt off and spreading the hand towards the mountain with dancers behind me are not my cup of tea.
Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too.
Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.
Our country's growing obsession with organized sports isn't just hurting our children, but also our communities. As play is siphoned off to gyms and fields, fewer kids are playing in our streets, parks, and playgrounds.
Real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man.
There's no way we could take cars off the planet and not have our society fall apart. So they're a necessary evil, in that sense.
I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.
I guess something that you love to do, you gotta ease up off it and give it a little space, come back and be fresh to it.
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.
Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.
Music has its own depths, and I let it take me where it takes me, even if it means stripping all my clothes off.
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to take it off of you.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Sometimes I think that I understand my movies after I make them. Really. I go very often off of instinct.
