“I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.”
“Several paranoid suspicions occurred to me, the worst of which was that my whole identity was merely a patched-together set of behaviors designed to keep my parents joined to each other – the repertoire of tricks of a small but intelligent dog.”
“It’s good to play 100 per cent live – no tricks, no samples, no messing about.”
“My look is pretty low maintenance, I have a great team around me for hair and make-up, and they have also taught me some great tricks over the years for when I’m doing my own.”
“I’ve learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!”
“The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.”
“Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.”
“Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.”