Artists don't come much cooler and well rounded than Lady Gaga. Love and respect.

In today's world, I probably would like to work with someone like Gaga.

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.

After waiting four long years since the Lost CHIC Tapes were recovered, I'm finally putting out our first record. I'm like a child waiting for Christmas morning.

I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak.

Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.

Bands always call me when they are in need of a boost and I come in and put them back on top.

It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair.

Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.

If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Egotism is such a terrible disease, in the love of duality, they do their deeds.

People who have a conservative viewpoint both religiously and politically and they fear that the world is going to be thrown into perpetual communism.

I'd rather not sing than sing quiet.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

God has given a new revelation of himself in modern times and we are the custodians of the message.

All Nature will commune with you when you are in tune with God. Realization of this truth will make you a master of your destiny.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?