I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.
Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone. . . truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.
Sometimes you just have to say, “. . . I don't know what we are doing, let's just go and see what happens. ” You have to embrace the experience itself, so that things you didn't intend to happen can make your work more authentic. And you have to hope that it works
Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.
We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.
In terms of my father, if you have 4 children that work in film, then there certainly was a happy, positive influence from him because none us became an accountant.
Common Core is a big win for education.
The divisiveness could be really dangerous and it can create a lot of violence I think. So we have got to heal that by embracing that everybody wants the same thing and they are just going about it in different ways.
I didn't want make art about the internet at all. It's a really hard subject to take on and I did not set out to do that. But, it was real and it was what was happening.