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" I'm completely obsessed with the film versions of 'Superman'. "

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" I think the hardest thing to overcome is judging yourself and being your own worst critic so to speak. "

" When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new. "

" If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing. "

" Almost all the producers I know and dig, like Quincy Jones or Brian Eno, are really musicians first. I'm a composer, an orchestrator, an arranger and a musician first. I know how to write and rewrite songs, and the genius is really in the rewriting. "

" You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer. "

" I grew as close to Madonna as I've ever been to a woman without being romantically involved. "

" I never wished my parents were normal, because they were unique, special and fabulous. "

" Every record I have done was because I was a person's friend. The only time we did not continue to be friends was if the record did not become a hit. If it did, we became great friends. "

" There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist. "

" Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition. "

" The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis. "

" I wouldn't know how to retire. "

" I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction. "

" Everything about my life was culturally rich, and all the people I met sort of reinforced the wackiness that was normally inside of me. No one said, 'You can't do that,' until I got to real record companies, that is. "

" I used to play flute and clarinet at school, and although I wasn't thinking about making a living or getting a pay cheque, I already knew I was going to play music all my life. "

" Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record. "

" I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life. "

" My childhood was bittersweet in many ways. We moved around a lot. By the time I was 10, I had travelled thousands of miles, often on my own. My parents were like my friends, so it felt like I didn't really have parents at all. But in a crazy way that was very liberating. It forced me to be independent, maybe a leader, and certainly a survivor. "

" Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved. "

" I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional. "

" I'm a record producer and songwriter; I'm a problem-solver. "

" I don't believe in the philosophy of stumbling across hit records. "

" I'm always the last person in the world who would ever try to predict a trend. "

" My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet. "

" It feels like my job is to support people. I support great artists. When I worked with a symphony, I sat in the third chair, not the first chair. "

" When I was very young, there was a lot of music at home, mostly jazz. I was walking around singing and pretending I was in bands from a very young age. But the first song that was really personal to me was 'Blue Suede Shoes'. "

" Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing. "

" When people tell you you're on the brink of death, you've got to dig pretty deep to get it together. "

" I've been working since I was a child. I worked cutting lawns, delivering newspapers; I was a telephone salesperson; I was a guitar repairman. "

" I love Madonna! If you want to see the Madonna I know, just go on YouTube and you'll see those early interviews before the record came out. She was giddy and wonderful and giggly and happy and so excited looking towards the future. "