Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
Even when I was coming up in the singer-songwriter ranks during the early '70s, I thought that people who were stylists and stuff shoulda still been up on the pedestal. I mean, it's fine to recognize people who write songs, but it kinda got out of hand, you know?
I know that I'm probably far more pedestrian and less talented than many who dreamed of becoming writers but couldn't see the road so easily.
A man who always speaks the truth wholeheartedly is greater than those who do penance and deeds of charity.
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.
You can have villains like the Penguin, who strut around in a tuxedo with an umbrella, and Poison Ivy and all of the fantastic stuff she does, but unless there's a bit of a human in there, and unless there's a credible threat, then Batman himself doesn't work.
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Bin Laden, who was in his country, attacked and damaged our Pentagon, and killed our soldiers right out here at the Pentagon. But his pentagon no longer exists. It is rubble.
How can people change their minds about us if they don't know who we are?
There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.
There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
I really like Beyonce. She's a perfectionist who works really hard on each and every performance.
He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.
If you're performing music that is not who you are or where you're at, it is painful. It's painful for the performer and for the audience.
Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.
We aren't people who believe that just because we're performers our opinions on everything need to be known.
