Mr. Cosby wanted to do a show not about an upper-middle-class black family, but an upper-middle-class family that happened to be black. Though it sounds like semantics, they're very different approaches.
I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.
We live in the realm where all the metalheads and rock fans know us, but we're not giants like Linkin Park or Black Sabbath.
I was mostly influenced by bands like Black Sabbath and Judas Priest - Metallica's 'Kill 'Em All' was also a hell of an inspiration.
Who doesn't like to play Black Sabbath tunes!
The first record I ever bought was Kiss's 'Destroyer.' And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves.
What makes something pop? It's really just the bed it's placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it's not like they wouldn't translate.
I feel kind of like the black sheep in Congress, but here I am.
No one in my family is musical, including extended family. I am like the black sheep.
I'm like the black sheep of my family.
If there's something I really like or a chord progression, I write a note in my Blackberry, and maybe a year later, I'll revisit it and ask, 'What did I like about that?' I really don't try to think too much about it. I like to be fresh.
Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.
If I gamble, I go for the lowest-end blackjack or slots. It's because I don't like to lose!
I like blackjack. I like the psychology of poker.
Building a solid organ like the liver in the lab is different and harder than with an organ like the bladder because solid organs are very vascular.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
The human life is all one thing, like a blade tracing loops on the ice: a little kid, a twenty-three-year-old infantry sergeant, a middle-aged writer knowing guilt and sorrow.
Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
Whether I'm playing right now or not, I still have an opportunity to get better in practice. It's like sharpening my blade.
In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
