"I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with."
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"When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way."
"Women like myself, CEOs, can pave the way for more women to get to the top."
"I was raised that way: don't get mad, get smart."
"I learned a great deal about myself, and it forced me to be introspective in a way that I'm not typically, but "reporting" on my own life became emotionally exhausting."
"I like the way remixes sound. Some of them are really creative."
"one thing about having a baby is that each step of the way you simply cannot imagine loving him any more than you already do, because you are bursting with love, loving as much as you are humanly capable of- and then you do, you love him even more."
"For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts."
"I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically."
"Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' - now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom."
"Perhaps creativity is fumbling that dance step, or driving the chisel the wrong way into the stone."
"Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons."
"For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal."
"Men are good in but one way, but bad in many."
"There is no such thing as committing adultery with the right woman, at the right time, and in the right way, for it is simply WRONG."
"Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever."
"The best way of successfully acting a part is to be it."
"In some ways, blogging is like drinking - it gives a person permission to be a total asshole."
"I'm like the guy who prepares your taxes or a dentist. I'm very conservative and boring in a lot of ways."
"Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me."