It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.
With my being from Hawaii and being very family oriented I don't really have a fear of a tragic ending. I dont see any tragic ending for me.
To write a song you must have an imagination, to have an imagination you must be free.
Every time I try to write a song, when I sit down and think I'm going to write, I really want to write a song, and it never works out. It's always when it hits me unexpectedly on a plane or right before I go to bed, something like that.
I love artists like Prince, who hold on to that element of mystery.
I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.
What I'm hoping is that every album I'm going to do will give my audience something different, and that they'll grow as I do.
The darkness declares the glory of the light.
We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
Listen. I may not be much, but I'm all I've got. Maybe you need a magnifying glass to find my face in my high school graduation photo. Maybe I haven't got any family or friends. Yes, yes, I know all that. But, strange as it might seem, I'm not entirely dissatisfied with life. . . I feel pretty much at home with what I am. I don't want to go anywhere. I don't want any unicorns behind fences.
I decided that the whole idea of what it means to be an artist was that somehow you are ontologically oriented toward poverty : "As an artist, you don't make money. " I had to figure out some kind of way to guarantee that I'd be able to continue doing the work that I wanted to do, whether I made money from the work I was doing or not.