Love is when you suddenly wake up as a cannibal, and not just any old cannibal, or else wake up destined for devourment.
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.
I don’t know you, And you don’t know me. It is this that brings us together.
I split it up into working on the two narrative pieces that can tell a story. The scariest thing was whether I'd be any good performing live again. It was such a long time since I'd done any live work. It's so different for me than recording. Every night my audiences were what I would dream of. You could just feel their support.
The thing with 50 Words of Snow is that it was literally back-to-back from Director's Cut [also released in 2011]. It was more or less that I got to make two albums in one hit. I was already in this space in my mind to be writing and making an album.
It wasn't that we were afraid of the Church or the Vatican. The record company thought people might find the title offensive. They asked me if I would change ["A Deal with God"].
They were worried we wouldn't get any radio play at all[ for "A Deal with God" ]. That's why it was changed [to "Running Up That Hill"].
I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate. ' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.
I like lots of songs, and I find it quite interesting to do [cover songs] from time to time. My first solo hit was in 1973, the [Bob] Dylan song "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall. "
No human investigation can be called real science if it cannot be demonstrated mathematically.
I'm not just an actor born in L. A. I was born in the Griffith Park Hospital. You can't get any more clichéd than that.