One song will launch you, but you don't want to be a one-song artist.
All I do, really, is go to work and try to be professional, be on time and be prepared.
But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs.
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.
We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society.
I am not the President. Instead, I hold an even higher office, that of citizen of the United States.
Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster.
As a kid, I used to go see all the jazz players, Oscar Peterson, Stan Kenton, Dave Brubeck, Dizzy Gillespe.
Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.
I'd rather wear jewels in my hair than anywhere else. The face should have the advantage of this brilliance.
I don't think anyone could write about another culture and get it 100 percent accurate.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.
Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with which men will never have to cope.
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
A few years ago my goal was to try and get the goddamned album made, which put me in a real bad frame of mind.
I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.