Without discipline, there can be no freedom.
A lot of artists make art for five years, some artists make art for ten years, a few make art for fifteen: very few do it until they die.
I wonder a lot about making things meaningful. You want to do meaningful work and make art, but you're making records, which is good, but you don't want to weight them - it's a very curious thing.
What I remove from my writing is linear context. It's not really important to me, because it doesn't give me chills to see, "you flip the latch and the lock opens and then you can open the top of the chest and inside the chest is this. " That doesn't give me chills, to think in that vein. So I've always kind of avoided it.
I am not concerned about the 80 BMP consistency law of popular music. I'm concerned with other things, and they're very valid.
I'm at best on stage. It's one of the only places where I actually can feel like a million bucks.
Being on stage, it's like, "Ooo-kay, now I remember why all this is going wrong or right!" It's very much my element.
Nobody will listen to you unless they sense that you like them.
It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.
I think a lot of funds get their ideas from Wall Street. I just like to find my own ideas. I read a lot. A lot of news. I just follow my nose. A lot of times it's a dead end, but sometimes there's value there.
Every quarrel begins in nothing and ends in a struggle for supremacy.