Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
He thanked her and left the house in the mood of a shipwrecked man who has allowed the rescue ship to pass him by.
What is more basic than the need to be known? It is the entirety of intimacy, the elixir of love, this knowing.
The compelling thing about making art - or making anything, I suppose - is the moment when the vaporous, insubstantial idea becomes a solid there, a thing, a substance in a world of substances.
He looks sad. Or maybe that's just how he looks when he isn't doing something else with his face.
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
. . . all of our laments could not add a single second to her life, not one additional beat of the heart, nor a breath.
It's one thing to tell a front man to drop off and fill in the hole behind, but if they don't know why they are doing it, it is not an easy thing to teach. But Rooney's just got it.
In the theater, which is a sort of jungle, one does have to be a little bit careful. One mustn't be so rigid or egotistical to think that every comma is sacrosanct. But at the same time there is the danger of losing control and finding that somebody else has opened a play and not you.
Respect authority while questioning it.
We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did.