I'm one of those guys that - as far as relationships and stuff go - if you smile at me, I'm like, 'Let's date for three years' - which is just ridiculous.
My father left Nazi Germany a year after Dr. Kissinger, and so in my household he was very much an icon. He was a kind of immigrant success story, a refugee success story.
It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.
As a label, you have to treat every group and every record as a unique entity. I think that that has been our success, rather than relying upon a fan base.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.
I sang in the coffee houses of the country in the early '60s with no idea of success in terms of records or television. I just thought I was a storyteller. I didn't even think of myself as a singer.
If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things that revolve around love.
Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.
Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
Of course I will continue photography. I love photography. But when you become old, it's too much.
I've always been drawn to artists who paint for the everyday person. I love the American illustrators.
I like 'Elle' magazine. I love things online, like when all the big brands have a fashion show, I like to see the new collections.
I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.
I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
I've always had a fascination with making your own music but never have been skilled enough to play the instrument, so to be able to make music without the ability was awesome.
If you were to hold me to a standard of, 'What are you doing, singing about a scratch-off ticket at your level of success?' then my music's gonna be ridiculous.
By the end of high school, I had this fork-in-the-road moment where part of me considered going to vocational music school to really pursue it.
Somewhere along the line, music became 'content'... It's my full intention to bring it back to music again! I believe in the power of song.
I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.
