"Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words."
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"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it."
"I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of."
"I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing."
"Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead."
"Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation?"
"True education is a kind of never-ending story . . ."
"Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense."
"[C]apitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich."
"In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning."
"If love is a drug, then it's the kind that should be prescribed."
"I don't like a lot of things like [Iraq], I never did. Being in a position of celebrity and having your words carry such unnatural weight...I've always been a bit squeamish when it came to that kind of thing."
"Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies."
"I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have."
"Kind words produce their images on men's souls."
"Whenever you set a goal of any kind, you will have to grow and develop to the point where you are ready to achieve it."
"I'm just a shy and retreating kind of person. Sometimes I get in a real talkative mood - but not very often."
"I find it refreshing to unplug from it for a while. You kind of forget how deeply you get embedded in it."
"Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too."
"For me it's an issue of are we afraid of ourselves? And we inherit a huge bunch of idealogical baggage, not only Christianity, but Freudianism, and Marxism . . . We inherit all kinds of idealogical baggage designed to make us fear ourselves."