If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
I asked for a piano in the TARDIS, but it hasn't happened. I'd love to see the Doctor rock up and play, but it'd have to be done in an inventive and silly way.
I do happen to love Honey Nut Cheerios. I don't know if I want to walk down to the store in my pajamas for them. But I do love them.
The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.
There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.
If something happened where I couldn't write music anymore, it would kill me. It's not just a job. It's not just a hobby. It's why I get up in the morning.
In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.
My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
My mom, you know, took off when I was about 6. What ended up happening is I ended up being with my grandparents.
I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.
The problem is the myths of Area 51 are hard to dispute if no one can speak on the record about what actually happened there.
There is an explosion of information happening, yet people demand quick access to relevant content that cuts through the clutter.
It's not about what you've done; it's how you've experienced whatever has happened to you. Matt Lawrence in The Overachievers
The fact is that it is reasonable for us to say that there is going to be an emergency that happens in this country that we cannot budget for. Katrina is an example.
I feel like something magical is going to happen, and I feel like all the stars have finally lined up perfectly for Angie Stone.
It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.
I was in NYC during 9/11; it happened on a Tuesday, I was on stage Thursday. It was a small crowd, but it took about 10 days and comedy clubs were packed.
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
I often stood and stared into those tunnels and thought about what happened there; how I was separated from it only by time." - The Procession
My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to that of an actor. I just happen to be an author.
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
