In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Europe seems a little softer, but in America it's harsh. In L.A., where I live, it's all about perfectionism.
I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
In my work I think what drives me is perfection. I'm a chronically unsatisfied guy.
I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.
Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.
I understand reform to mean the perfection of what previous generations have already done. I'm not an advocate of destroying, 'kroshat,' and then selling like they do in Russia. That's how we can prevent the wild corruption in our state like they have in the other post-Soviet states.
In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.
I'm a better cook and more of a perfectionist than my mother.
