I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.
I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.
If you got a trumpet, get on your feet, brother, and blow it!
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
Out of sorrow entire worlds have been built out of longing great wonders have been willed they're only little tears darling let them spill and lay your head upon my shoulder.
It's a wonderful life if you can find it.
I love America. I really do. It's by far the place I like visiting out of anywhere in the world. I get a palpable sense of excitement when the plane's landing. It's a cliché, but there's still an incredible energy about New York in particular.
If I'm going to call myself a person of faith, I need to be willing to live a life that actually requires faith.
Violence against women isn't cultural, it's criminal. Equality cannot come eventually, it's something we must fight for now.
Have you ever noticed how some rooms exude a certain energy, warmth, and a harmony of spirit? If you have, then you have experienced the language of the home. A language softly spoken, and univerally understood.
everything that's worth having hurts in some way or other.