“I might be stupid to think love is love, but I do.”

I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn’t great.

They want to sign distribution deals with labels, who have lots of product, lots of artists.

When I grew up in the ’70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn’t think you had a choice.

All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want.

If your standards are low, you’re going to stop pretty early on in the process.

Knowing record labels and knowing the kinds of things they would object to-they just object to everything that’s interesting.

The king of the jailhouse and the queen of the road think sharing the burden will lighten the load.

I don’t consider myself a great writer, but I would like to think that I can at least proof- read.

One of the things I’ve really gotten past in the last couple of years is the idea of being made uncomfortable by the way things appear, rather than how things are.

I certainly understand that we’re all trying to make a living, but I’m not thinking about that when I’m making it.

I thought everything was interesting. I wanted to go scuba diving and I wanted to learn how to surf.

Because I grew up in the 60s girls were not allowed to do anything. As I’ve gotten older and realized that women can do things like that I thought, ‘Why not? Now’s the time.’

Something gets lost when you translate. It’s hard to keep straight. Perspective is every thing.

I’m really into boxing. I go to a gym and I’m friends with a trainer who’s a pretty famous boxing trainer and I train with him.

I probably would’ve kept slogging on that same chord change, because there’s a tendency to have that happen.

You get into the cadence in your mind, and it’s hard to make the kind of left turn that you probably need to keep it really interesting.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.

You think the two of us and a slummy motel make for a dangerous combination?

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman.

My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to.

I think prejudice and tradition count for three-quarters in matters of religion.

There was something unbearable in the things, in the people, in the buildings, in the streets that, only if you reinvented it all, as in a game, became acceptable.