None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.
But I'm a hot-blooded Italian by nature. Whatever the situation you present, I'm going to make something out of it.
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
I've written poetry since I was a kid. As the years went on, I got into writing stories and screenplays, but I always, always kept up with poetry as well.
I do actually dabble in a bit of poetry! And I'm yet to pen a script, but it is something that I've been telling myself I want to do.
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.
You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.
Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
