我是自猫王以来最糟糕的人,如此自私地做黑人音乐。
I'm the worst thing since Elvis Presley, to do Black music so selfishly.
Diplomacy is the art of restraining power.
That's exhilarating if you're doing well, and very crushing if you're not. It leads, in the worst cases -- in the analysis of a sociologist like Emil Durkheim -- it leads to increased rates of suicide. There are more suicides in developed, individualistic countries than in any other part of the world. And some of the reason for that is that people take what happens to them extremely personally -- they own their success, but they also own their failure.
"It’s funny how sometimes the people we remember the least make the greatest impression on us."
Music is my therapy, my escape, my everything.
历史进程是不连续的,重大变革往往是突然发生的,而不是渐进的。
Every novel is an experiment.