My favorite rocker is Go because it is heavy and chaotic.
Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions.
I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.
It all comes down to the density of the wood. Every guitar's different.
When I was a little kid, I was very impressed with Elvis.
I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating.
When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.
I'm playing to the sort of people who like the same records.
The number of contemporary artists who appeal to me is infinitesimal.
More power to the people who get to choose their roles. I don't.
We don't know the power that's within our own bodies.
Because people of color will definitely, definitely become the power base in the Western Hemisphere.
An actor is an instrument. One needs to control them.
People naturally change a lot during their 20s, so my songs reflect that progression.
Rebellion is obsolete - change things from the inside working out.
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
My introduction of Whitney was that if there's going to be one performer for the next generation who combined the beauty and lyric phrasing of a Lena Horne with those Gospel fiery roots of an Aretha Franklin, it would be Whitney Houston.
The more you are blessed with experience, the fuller and the more enriched you are in your craft.
Experience means conflict, our natures being what they are, and conflict means drama.
