As long as greed, stupidity and cowardice remain a part of the human condition, there will be a constituency for Democrats.
I always think it's far more admirable to confuse people than it is to reassure them.
In a lot of ways, the way you're making your bread and butter is off people who aren't necessarily who you're writing for.
If you were a performer that only had an acoustic instrument, back in the day you couldn't hide behind your guitar pedals or the production or the vibe. There was performance and then there was the song, and that was all that you had.
When your head is smashing into the concrete you don't have question about whether it's a real sensation. And ultimately, that's what's going to unmake us all - smashing up against the physical reality of death and decay, and being unmade.
When you're a songwriter, people wonder about your personal life and the meanings behind the songs, and that can feel pretty invasive, so you become protective about your inner world.
Collaboration is such a thrill when you're working with someone you really respect. When it's just one person working alone you get a singular view of their world, and that can be great, too. But when you have different people working together with different aesthetics, different techniques, and different mediums, you get something bigger than both of them.
She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.
Decadence attracts me. It suggests a new world, and, for me, society's struggle between life and death is absolutely beautiful.
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got.