I am not interested in poetry for poetry's sake.
We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.
There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered days
I put my energy into writing songs. I have to carve out a living somehow doing this, and licensing is one way. It's hard to register what's "too much" for other people. I don't watch TV, so it's tough for me to gauge. I just take it as it comes, and don't put a whole lot of thought into it.
We all assume the worst the best we can.
It's fun to be able to revisit a song and do something that doesn't really illustrate the song but works tangentially or runs parallel to the song in some way.
I'm one of those people who sort of feeds on music.
Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.
If you want to dismiss a negative thought, the only way to do so is to think of something positive and constructive.
Jeff [Koons] called me because he'd seen a portrait of David Bowie, at the beginning of the 80s - I've known Jeff for a long time - and he said, Greg, I want to look like a high-profile celebrity, living on the edge. I think that says it all.
Unusual precocity in children, is usually the result of an unhealthy state of the brain; and, in such cases, medical men would now direct, that the wonderful child should be deprived of all books and study, and turned to play or work in the fresh air.