The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.
If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.
If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.
A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.
I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
It's a really good time for California right now in music.
In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.
Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.
I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that.
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.