You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Of course I'm proud of what I've done, but I'm interested in what's next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I've done my bit for the past. I've only ever been about what's next, really, and I'll be that way until I keel over.
Everybody knows what's going on. Even if they don't watch it they know what's happening.
Often by the time writers and producers try to get a new hit song, the industry has already moved on. Whatever you're creating might not be as hot as it would have been during the time of your first hit. It definitely compromises the creative process when the music is changing and evolving so fast. If you're not on top of it, you will be forgotten.
Whatever I did in 1960, half a century ago, I couldn't do that today and enter the field. The field has changed so much, you have to adapt to the times whatever you're doing. That's the reality of life: you have to be a different person today than you had to be then.
You gotta turn with the times, or the times gonna turn on you.
You know, one had as good be out of the world, as out of the fashion.
I move with the time. Whatever's happening in time, I'm in.
I don't want to be left in the past. When I stand next to Kylie, Beyonce or Rihanna, I don't want to be a decrepit old lady.
To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.
If you're trying to be hip, be hip.
People are really surprised by the fact that I keep in touch with the latest trends rather than retreating to the distant past.
Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.
Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.
I can't make the new generation like me, because they didn't grow up on me. So I stick to what I know.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.
We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves.
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.
Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.
I don't really know or care about trends.
