I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.
I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.
That internal ache is the starting point of country music. If it's a happy song and I can still feel sad in it? That's my favorite.
All men want to be treated like kings in a relationship, and I think if women don't indulge that sometimes, their men are likely to stray and look for someone who can give that to them.
I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.
My mom says that when I was a little kid, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I don't remember that.
I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.
I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies I've done, is there's only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads.
I guess a lot of things I make are relationship movies. Maybe all movies are relationship movies, because they're all about how we relate to each other.
All the folks I play with come from jazz backgrounds or at least appreciate spontaneity within the parameters of a pop song.
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.
I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.
One of the reasons why my album is called 'Forget the World' is because when you listen to the world, you make stupid mistakes.
I've been fifty thousand times to the Louvre. I have copied everything in drawing, trying to understand.
That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.
I don't do anything on stage that allows me to become a trained seal, where you're just doing the same thing over and over.
