I hate how things must be classified. How this is applied to musicians implies that they somehow contrive their products and have studied the demographics of the audience.
I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.
When I was growing up, my parents were almost involved in various volunteer things. My dad was head of Planned Parenthood. And it was very controversial to be involved with that.
I don't do things for the response or for the controversy. I just live my life.
We love things that are convenient.
I have a very conveniently photographic memory of emotions - it's overwhelming, because things don't fade for me.
That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
The personal things should be left out of, in my opinion, out of platforms and conventions.
You can converge a toaster and a refrigerator, but those things are probably not going to be pleasing to the user.
Great things happen when you converge services and devices.
The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.
In conversion you are not attached primarily to an order, nor to an institution, nor a movement, nor a set of beliefs, nor a code of action - you are attached primarily to a Person, and secondarily to these other things.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
You could accuse Republicans of a lot of things, but you could never convict us of being too conservative!
It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so you can do it year-round.
All the things I used to like - cookies, ice cream, gumbo - I don't like anymore.
I have a way of just being ice and just cooling situations and making things work.
It's really hard to compete with Apple on pure coolness, and if you do, you're probably going to use some of the things they pioneered.
