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When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. ”
If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity. ”
As the times change, people change, and so do their tastes, so I try to understand what the public wants, what they require. I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand. ”
Every time you engage in a political debate, there is a guaranteed headache from the comment section, from the reaction from everything. ”
You don't really write a hit song - you write a great song, and then, if the public decides it's a hit, they take over from there. The song becomes its own monster. ”
I will devote my body and soul to the service of the people and the nation. ”
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. ”
I've got to tell you what, the soldier doesn't fight very hard for a leader who is going to shoot him, okay, on his own whim. That's not what military leadership is all about. ”
You learn far more from negative leadership than from positive leadership. Because you learn how not to do it. And, therefore, you learn how to do it. ”
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ”