"It wasn't good for my nerves, that kind of work - a fireman. I've got high blood pressure. I get upset easily. I don't think that was a proper career alternative for me."
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"Fidel Castro rhetorically championed the poor. He also held the Cuban economy in a kind of arrested state. He called for racial equality but often cracked down - but did crack down on the press and dissidents and Cuban gays."
"It's kind of condoned in our society: There are things that an abusive mate could get away with with their partner that they could not with a stranger."
"I don't see how a person can be sensuous - unless they're just, you know, following some kind of script - without being vulnerable."
"I just love music. I love all kinds of music, and I was exposed to it, me and my siblings, from the time we were in utero."
"I just kind of tried to stay true to myself."
"The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful."
"The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?"
"Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird."
"Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place."
"If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract."
"I'm fascinated with all kinds of religion, but I'm not committed to any specific one."
"People want to be the first with the record, they want to be the first to know which songs are on the record, all that kind of stuff. So I like to just stall them a bit. Personally, I love the idea of an album that's completely new, that no one's heard any free downloads, any pre-record releases, all that kind of stuff, and nothing's been played on the radio. Totally virgin, you know, a sealed record. That's my ideal, but it's very hard to get anybody else to agree to do that."
"In short, for me - I'm kind of projecting onto you - distraction has become a modus vivendi, a way of life. Rather than complaining, I am recognizing that I couldn't do what I wanted to do because I'm distracted."
"I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream."
"I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to."
"Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with."
"Anyone who achieves any kind of success, however you want to define it, sometimes can't let go of it."
"I never imagined working with CEOs, congressmen or the military, yet I make regular visits to the Pentagon, stop by the Capitol now and then and sit down with leaders of all kinds of companies."
"David Bowie used to cover loads of people, and there was an element of "David Bowie did it, so we wanted to do it," because we're kind of obsessed [with him]."