I used to be fast and loose with the term 'country' because I didn't know what else to call my music. I still don't.
Books are acts of composition: you compose them. You make music: the music is called fiction.
I'd call what I do pop music, but it's folky and electronic and it doesn't really sound like much else.
I was never too keen on the British music press. They've called us a supermarket hype, and they used to suggest that we didn't write our own songs.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.
They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second.
There's intense national feeling in America that could be called patriotism.
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
The moral and spiritual aspects of both personal and international relationships have a practical bearing which so-called practical men deny.
I went to the Westminster College for Men in Missouri, which is what it was called back then, and transferred to the University of Denver where I ultimately got my degree.
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.
If Judd Apatow called me, I'd do it without thinking about it. I think he does really fun movies.
I'll be a flop in movies. Besides, I don't like 'em, and I never did believe there was a place called Hollywood. Somebody made it up!
Patrick Bateman: New York Matinee called it "a playful but mysterious little dish".
Courtney Rawlinson: Will you call me before Easter? Patrick Bateman: Maybe.
Howard Hughes: You have called me a liar and a thief and a war profiteer.
Alicia: It's called "life," John. Activities available; just add meaning.
Harry: I'm sorry for calling you an inanimate object. I was upset.
The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes.
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
