I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.
Success is a very fragile veneer. I get wary of people who embrace celebrity. It ruins people.
'Fragile,' of course, was a very successful album for us, especially here in the States. It had a lot of solo pieces on it, though.
There's only about 6 inches that turns that halo into a noose.
So quick bright things come to confusion.
Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken.
Every movie is like a little company, and any little thing can make it not work.
I have always understood the unbelieving look in the eyes of those whom success touches early - it is a look half fearful, as though the dream were still in the process of being dreamed and to move or to speak would shatter it.
Music is quicksilver, gossamer; careers are measured in butterfly lifetimes.
