There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
I think there's something about evil that is thoughtless and relentless and incredibly frightening because it can't be reckoned with, reasoned with or stopped.
We're thinking of creating a board of experts across the sectors of industry, to identify successful programs and to make recommendations about programs that are working and aren't working.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
I'm not embarrassed about how we recruit, how we treat kids, and how we coach them.
I'm really excited about public libraries that are redefining themselves as free learning centers.
I sort of half read Thomas Hardy's 'The Mayor of Casterbridge.' It was assigned in 10th grade, and I just couldn't get into it. About seven years later, I rediscovered Hardy and consumed four of his novels in a row.
The modern economy isn't about the redistribution of wealth, it's about the redistribution of time.
Democracy isn't solely about polite conversations in parliaments. It needs to be continually refreshed with raw passions, anger and ideals.
In many regards, Me Too is about survivors talking to survivors.
In many regions, war and terror prevail. States disintegrate. For many years, we have read about this. We have heard about it. We have seen it on TV. But we had not yet sufficiently understood that what happens in Aleppo and Mosul can affect Essen or Stuttgart. We have to face that now.
I guess I reinvented myself about 18 times throughout my career.
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
Tolkien was quite a religious man, and so is George R.R. Martin. They kind of have this epic quality about them when they write the material.
Race is a subject about which there are points of agreement, and about which there is no agreement; a subject that is either spoken of reluctantly, or not spoken of at all.
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
I think, in history, everything is about the remix.
I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
I don't think I ever wore pants on 'Reno 911!' and I was on it about five times.
