Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again.
Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.
If we can teach a teacher we can reach more people.
Maybe if I knew music I couldn't do what I am doing.
By the late '80s, I was already giving up on rap music.
I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music.
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
The country of Britain is wonderful because of its royalty.
When you're writing, you're on your own, and I like to work as a team.
I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
Across professions, consistency is a direct product of work ethic.
Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.
It can't be bad having a mother who is fulfilled by her work.
I do believe fashion should work as hard as a woman does.
The world's treated me awfully well, and I guess it's crept into my work.
No woman needs intercourse; few women escape it.
