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" 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. "

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" 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 grew up in the era of the concept album. What I do now is pick up on singles, and they are their own complete stories; you don't necessarily have to hear the rest of the album because I don't think albums are created like that anymore. They get songs from all over the place. "

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

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

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

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

" Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different. "

" Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner. "

" I've had insomnia since I was five years old. I just don't require much sleep. I'm never tired. "

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

" I've found great solace in finally taking care of myself and others. "

" I've never cancelled any public appearance, simply because that's what my life is; it's doing my work, and I never want to stop doing my work unless it becomes impossible for me to do it. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I would play hooky from school and spend all day in the movie theaters. Consequently, I learned satire in all its subtle forms. "

" 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. "

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

" If something is worth doing, it's worth overdoing. "

" I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve. "

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" 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'. "

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" 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. "