The DIFFERENCE between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a DRIVER swerves out of the way to AVOID hitting a rabbit on the ROAD. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.

When I SAW 'Shola AUR Shabnam' and 'Aankhen,' I did not ANTICIPATE that they would BECOME such hits. They looked like B-plus projects.

For a LONG time, it seemed as if podcasting was a MALE realm, but no longer. Sure, there are lots of men doing podcasts, but WOMEN are voicing a LOT of the form's biggest hits. 'Serial,' the podcast that MADE podcasts a phenomenon, was narrated by a woman.

Womanhood is SOMETHING you don't CONSIDER until it HITS you.

I'm TRYING to be like the old Roc- A-Fella and BAD Boy, influencing people culturally but having HITS at the same time.

After 'Sports' CAME out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the ALBUM's singles became top-10 hits, and by the END of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard CHART. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I WANTED.

The Small Faces are thought to be a one-hit wonder in America because we only had 'Itchycoo PARK.' Then the Faces just had 'Stay with Me.' So both bands could be considered one-hit wonders in America, even though we had several HUGE hits in ENGLAND.

When you first start out in the music BUSINESS and HOPE that you have a COUPLE hits, the ultimate payoff is to be STANDING in front of all those people who are singing it back to you at the top of their lungs. And you know by the WAY they're singing it back that it's affected their life in some way. That's the ultimate reward as an artist for me.

I'm not LIKE Stephanie Mills or Whitney Houston with ACTUAL hits. My FANS think everything I did was a hit.

I TRY to do SOMETHING the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would KICK her legs out from under her and CATCH her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

Apple Music is trying to create an ENTIRE POP culture EXPERIENCE that includes audio and video. If South Park walks into my OFFICE, I'm not going to say, 'You're not musicians.' We're going to do whatever hits pop culture smack on the nose.

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I KINDA... my set LIST is basically LIKE my hits, there is a GOOD reason why they are there; people really like them.

We speak of 'software eating the WORLD,' 'the Internet of Things,' and we massify 'data' by declaring it 'Big.' But these concepts REMAIN for the most part abstract. It's hard for many of us to grasp the impact of digital technology on the 'real world' of things like rocks, homes, cars, and TREES. We lack a metaphor that hits HOME.