The best fish in the world are of course those one catches oneself.
Music's at its best when it has a purpose.
Sometimes I hear news about the huge dollars involved with CEO pay and corporate-management salaries, and I'm mystified at how someone can justify taking that much at the cost of other people's livelihoods. In a bizarre way, I'm almost kind of curious, like "How can they absolve themselves and enjoy their wealth?" I don't understand it.
i change by not changing at all
If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.
You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.
When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.
It's not what you see on-screen that makes a performance. It's the things you should never know about - it's the secrets.
It is up to us not to bury that potential we have.
I don't make a list of questions. Ever. I think a lot of my interviews are driven by my need to feel connection.
Even when we know things, sometimes it takes words to make them concrete.