My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It's pretty much all women all the time.
Truman Capote: [to Perry Smith] We're not so different as you might think.
Captain Dudley Smith: Have you a valediction, boyo? Jack Vincennes: [gasping out a name] ... Rollo Tamasi.
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith: Have you ever been struck by lightning? It hurts.
If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.
Money is the most important thing because there might be a time when you have no label behind you and you have to carry yourself. Money is the only thing that can shield you.
Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
Being willing to donate the taxpayers' money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.
I think religion is a mistake - I'm exhausted by its self-righteousness. I think atheists should start screaming for attention like religious folks do.
The UN declaration on human rights must always be first in line before religion or other cultural habits, in case of any conflict between them.
I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion.
Let's face it: There are people who are extremists in every corner of society, and whatever flag they're waving is something Bad Religion has stood against.
Oh, there's going to be debate because you're dealing with the Bible and religion is supposed to be separate from state and that to me is already a conflict before it even hits the gay issue.
If you believe, you believe; if you're faithful, you're faithful. I don't care what your religion is. The same if you're agnostic. That should be accepted, too.
I have friends, political scientists, sociologists, who all share an interest at least in certain kinds of science fiction.
It's sad that some people who have one exciting moment spend the rest of their lives rehashing it.
Despite whatever commercial kind of success you might have or radio success, I don't want to do something just to get as many people as possible to listen.
You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.
You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.
With every record I put out, I got a bit more success, a bigger following in cities I would play in, and occasionally a bit of radio play.
