Snakes are very misunderstood. Snakes, I suggest, may be the oldest victims of bad press.
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Snakes are very misunderstood. Snakes, I suggest, may be the oldest victims of bad press.
The record companies really do conspire against the artists. They steal. They cheat. They do whatever they can, especially the black artists. Sony's Tommy Mottola is the president of the record division. He is mean. He is a racist, and he's very, very, very devilish.
I cry behind my mask. I really do when I go with them and people say, "Open your bag," and I think, look what I have been missing. I didn't know that this.
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
The songwriting process is something very difficult to explain because it's very spiritual. You really have it in the hands of God, and it's as if it's been written already, that's the real truth. As if it's been written in its entirety before were born and you're just really the source through which the songs come. And I feel guilty having to put my name, sometimes, on the songs that. I do write them. I compose them, I write them, I do the scoring, I do the lyrics, I do the melodies but still. It's a work of God.
I think that it's demeaning and disrespectful but I also want to make it clear it's not just about me but a pattern of disrespect that he has shown to our community. He needs to stop it and he needs to stop it now.
The courage to be honest and intimate opens the way to self-discovery. It offers what we all want, the promise of love.
I am the captain of my ship. I take suggestions and listen to what everyone has to say, but the final decision is mine.
I always thought Halloween and Thriller fit each other like a glove.
Yeah, I think James Brown is a genius you know, when he's with the Famous Flames, unbelievable. I used to watch him on television and I used to get angry at the cameraman because whenever he would really start to dance they would be on a close-up so I couldn't see his feet. I'd shout "show him show him," so I could watch and learn.