Personally, I do the best work with people I'm closest with. I know what their tastes are, and they are similar to mine. That close personal relationship is what delivers the best work.
I mean, I'm an uncle of seven or eight, and I don't mind it at all! Kids are great. Kids are the best six-hour experience you can have!
I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage.
I think most of the best new work is intended to have much more impact at once.
The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.
In the music business, I found it was much more about interviews, photo shoots and appearances rather than actual performing, which I do best.
When you pay your money to see me, I want you to have the best concert you can have from me.
I had some money, I made the best paintings ever. I was completely reclusive, worked a lot, took a lot of drugs. I was awful to people.
Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most.
The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.'
As I get older, I want to do more films for kids because they're the best audience around. Just putting a smile on a kid's face is the best thing.
I started putting down my own pen and spending some time searching for the best songs out there possible. It doesn't matter if I wrote them or not.
Because of things like iTunes and streaming and social networking, it's destroyed music. It's destroyed the motivation to go out there and really make the best record possible. It's a shame.
I've always made music from the heart, and that's what I do. And at the end of the day, whether it works or not, I can say I tried my best.
It's a nice feeling to go out in the world and look for excellence - the best in man. My subject is very valid. It's about people, and about life.
Sometimes I'll hear a phrase or a word and write it down in my little black notebook (a writer's best mate), then come back to it and work a plot around it.
I think the best riffs and the best songs come when you're jamming and having a good time.
The large ensemble cast and the fact that it was being shot in New York, combined with a lot of strong positive images as far as African Americans are concerned, really turned me on to The Best Man.
After 'Rock Star,' I was definitely doing more high profile gigs. I was playing in Iceland. I was playing in Canada.
The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.
