Internet radio stations like KCRW do take you everywhere, yet that's just one of a hundred small things you have to do to succeed. It used to be, if you just got on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' and a spotlight on 'The Tonight Show,' that was enough.
If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marsha...
The wittiest authors raise the very slightest of smiles.
The flower that does not smile at the branches withers.
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.
Who would want a face that hasn't seen or lived properly, hasn't got any wrinkles that come with age, experience and laughter? Not me, anyway.
Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
It's such a thrilling part about being in a relationship at a young age, and all your feelings are apocalyptic, all your emotions are so huge.
I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'
I believe in the power of song. Under the spell of the right song, passion is within reach, love is close by, and you are not alone!
The amazing thing is that the more money it takes for a movie to get made, the more you feel like everybody wants you to fail.
It's nice because success has allowed me to have a blast on stage, to be in the studio with amazing people, but I find it all a bit bizarre.
I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.
I get to travel around the world and meet all of these amazing people, and they're singing my songs! And to me, that's crazy.
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money.
People discuss my art and pretend to understand as if it were necessary to understand, when it's simply necessary to love.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
