First Quotes

Some people are attracted to vulnerability. From my very first album, I’ve been vulnerable. I’ve always given parts of me, parts of my life – good, bad, ugly. I’ve never put up this image as a super-thug. Also, some people just like the music.

I tend to not write for a long period of time until I can’t not write, and then I write first drafts in gallops.

First impressions are always the most important.

I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.

The greatest development is achieved during the first years of life, and therefore it is then that the greatest care should be taken. If this is done, then the child does not become a burden; he will reveal himself as the greatest marvel of nature.

The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment.

I gotta say – if I clicked on a movie interview, and the first part was all about Walt Whitman, I’d love that article.

The lesson is that, No. 1, this management has to be at the highest class possible. No. 2, they have to have a succession plan.

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.