Clive Davis Quotes
Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a proud family man.
-
The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
-
You need to become more than one type of athlete. You have to be a sprinter, a weight man and a distance guy all in one.
-
You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
-
Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.
-
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
-
Discipline is not a nasty word.
-
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
-
My schedule is so crazy.
-
And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
-
This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
-
I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
-
What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
-
Never put a sock in a toaster.
-
I have no mouth, and I must scream.
-
The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.
-
It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
-
The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
-
I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
-
Sometimes I not only stand there and take it, I even smile at them and say I'm sorry. When I feel that smile coming onto my face, I wish I could take my face off and stamp on it.
-
Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
-
I'm in a very successful band. We all love each other. It ain't ever breaking up. I also have a terrific hobby that became a full-time job. My only problem? There's not enough time to sleep in my world.
-
Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
