There used to be a lot of acts, which was good, because people don't want to see the same act every night. But, you don't want too many acts, you don't want to over-saturate it.
Lately Fish and I have been hooking up more, which is a good thing because it's just been a struggle for me as a bass player to play with someone who's so creative on the drums, and lately it's been really good, especially during sound checks.
We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.
I have to feel good about what I'm endorsing because I have to live with it.
It's our potential for good stuff I'm most interested in exploring, but that has most meaning when juxtaposed with things that can go wrong.
Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
Reading is a joy for my kids, and to swing in a hammock on a lazy summer day reading a good book just goes with summer.
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
We sometimes received - and I would read - 200 manuscripts a week. Some of them were wonderful, some were terrible; most were mediocre. It was like the gifts of the good and bad fairies.
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: deliciousness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.
Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed.
I think good books have to make a few people angry.
I've come to realize that most good ideas are precisely the ones you can't describe.
