American Quotes

When I got lucky with Dean, I ended up with 16 years with one of the truly great performers of all time. He was the greatest performer I'd ever been around, bar none.

I did honest television. Real, live, honest television. That's what I did best.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

Stay on top of your finances. Don't leave that up to others.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

Aerosmith went on The Simpsons and they had fun.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.

There are some aspects of the diagram that I wish I had expressed a little more clearly.

The more everybody knows about all aspects of the problems we face, the better off all of us will be. Less time spent explaining things means more time for coming up with creative solutions.

The main benefit of the book for the more experienced practitioners is as an evangelical tool. The book will give you some ways of expressing the value and importance of your work that you may not have had before.

My job involves a lot of different skills now - I'm as much entrepreneur and management consultant as anything else these days - but IA is still my favorite part of the work I do.

If you need to take a step back from day-to-day operations and plot out the long-term direction of your user experience strategy, consultants can give you a perspective you can't get on your own.

I'm not sure that you can say definitively that some roles are better filled by consultants, but I would say that some projects are better handled by consultants.