Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.

I couldn't read. I just scraped by. My solution back then was to read classic comic books because I could figure them out from the context of the pictures. Now I listen to books on tape.

The sea finds out everything you did wrong.

It was literally like the video game!

Every winner has scars.

Most of my movies get about a third raves, a third vicious attacks, and a third in-between.

When critics are waiting to pounce upon poetic style on exactly the same grounds as if it were prose, the poets tremble.

Without Jimmy (James) Dean the Beatles would never have existed.

When you're a dreamer, heart break and failure come with the territory, but I can tell you it's worth it, because it's a way of living that is both moving and memorable.

Artist development is something that I've been passionate about from my days at Uptown and Motown Records.

At first, she loved nought else but flowers, And then-she only loved the rose; And then-herself alone; and then- She knew not what, but now-she knows.