I denied this for many, many years and years... but you cannot help but not see a little of my mother in the character of Edna.
One reason I quit doing interviews after years and years and years was because I was making things up.
I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it.
I don't think what people realize is I've been through years and years and years of training - piano, dance, vocal lessons.
I did karate for years and years and years.
The notion of overnight stardom is really dangerous. For almost every person who has success in this business, there are years and years of hard work to get there. To have longevity, you really have to train, and you really have to work.
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Here is the difference between Dante, Milton, and me. They wrote about hell and never saw the place. I wrote about Chicago after looking the town over for years and years.
If you had no real training, if you hadn't spent years and years studying a martial art, how would you kill the bad guy?
Empowering innovations require long-term investments, which tie up capital for years and years. So companies are using capital to create more capital, and consequently, the world is awash in capital, but the innovations we need to advance aren't there.
