Sculpture occupies real space like we do... you walk around it and relate to it almost as another person or another object.
Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.
Trying to overcome addiction is one of the hardest things for a person to do. And the fact that I had to do it under the scrutiny of tabloid press at first made it seem even more difficult. But in fact, it oddly ended up being a plus. Because of the tabloid stuff, it wasn't like I could walk into a bar and order a drink.
I'm the type of person who loves to stay busy, even in my off-season.
It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.
Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.
When I get done playing basketball, I'm definitely not going to be a rapper. I'm not going to be an old person who is focused on being a rapper.
Nothing is more boring than some old person going on and on about the way things used to be.
Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.
A lot of times, that's hard to capture: what you sound like in person versus what you sound like on record. If I had total control, I would do a lot of the old songs - not only my songs but Sam Cooke songs, Luther Vandross, melody songs. That's what I would really do if I had an opportunity to do a record.
When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.
There's a scary moment when you realise you're no longer the youngest person in the room. Especially if you've been a successful young person. That's followed, of course, by the realisation that you're actually the oldest person in the room.
Kids don't see me as an oldies person when I go out on stage. They see me as an energy force.
It's because films like 'Selma' are so rarely made that we end up putting them under the microscope. One, maybe two, a year. As a white person, you don't have that. You have the gamut. No one says to Oliver Stone, 'Another film about Vietnam? White characters again?'
In the split-second before someone prepares to answer a question, he will consciously or subconsciously evaluate what the best possible answer might be. For a truthful person, the best possible answer might omit some information. It might have a few extraneous details. But it will still offer the information requested.
I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
