I'm only doing whatever the next role calls for.
Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.
I always say the new album is the best one yet. I always feel that - I really do, because it's the latest and it's the newest and it's a little bit better.
I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.
It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive. " The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.
I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.
I'm a culture vulture, and I just want to experience it all.
When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
She winced, knowing what was to come, "Calpurnia. " She closed her eyes again, embarrassed by the extravagant name - a name with which no one but a helplessly romantic mother with an unhealthy obsession with Shakespeare would have considered saddling a child.
I'm not one of those radical believers that everybody has to be forced to do one thing.