I work every single day, even on Sundays.
Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.
There has to be an element of risk-taking for me in my work.
I work on stories rather than individual pictures.
I don't pay to have my dirty work done for me. I do it myself.
One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work.
This was so unfunny, Steve had to laugh.
I need that aggressive attitude to play my music and more men have that attitude than women.
By the time I'm 40, interplanetary travel will be common. Nobody will want to talk to me at that age, anyway.
It is not the beauty of a building you should look at; its the construction of the foundation that will stand the test of time.
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.
I don't think about art when I'm working. I try to think about life.
I think music can definitely be art; I also think music can be crap and not be art.
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
it feels so scary getting old.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Being best is a false goal, you have to measure success on your own terms.
I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
We just did the best we could with quite a limited budget, to be honest, and had a lot of success.
Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.