The stated mission at the time was simply to use the influence of the entertainment industry to do an accurate portrayal of drug and alcohol abuse. We all admit that we're not trying to censor anybody.
As long as I can still be on my own and do my own thing and be working full time, it's great.
It takes me forever to say my prayers these days, but I don't care, because this time around, I want to make sure God doesn't have to do any guesswork.
We do have our finger on the pulse of the marketplace, if for no other reasons than having all these live events and listening to our audience all the time.
There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
Historians and archaeologists will one day discover that the ads of our time are the richest and most faithful reflections that any society ever made of its entire range of activities.
For tribal man space was the uncontrollable mystery. For technological man it is time that occupies the same role.
People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.
I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me and leave me alone and give me the time to make it right in my mind.
I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
'Time after Time' is one of the best pop songs ever written, in my opinion. It's an incredible, beautiful, timeless song.
Jazz is all about improvisation and it's about the moment in time, doing it this way now, and you'll never do it this way twice. I've studied the masters. Why would I want to play ball after the guys who sit on a bench? I want to play like Michael Jordan.
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.