"I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his."

“One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing.”

“People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.”

“That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.”

“My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.”

Source : Michael Tippett, Covent Garden Gallery (1977). “A Man of Our Time: Michael Tippett”, London : Schott

“Ironically, the success I've experienced at country radio has left me ostracized from pop and other formats of radio.”

“I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.”

“Professional sports is a business.”

“There are some artists that I'll always be cool with. We'll kick it and we'll check on each other from time to time. It's not always about number one records or gaining something off from being around me. I experienced all of those people that came into my life that vanished as soon as the rumor came out. They didn't even call to ask what was going on. Those that know me know that it's not true. Those people really broke my heart because they treated me differently. Just going from having everything to losing it all. I lost everything because of that.”