When people tell me I'm an artist, I say, 'What?' It's impossible for me to take the idea seriously.
I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming.
When you're a new person and a new idea, you get invited to all these different things, and everybody wants a piece of you. And you want to be polite and say yes to everything, but it gets dangerous.
When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.
This whole notion of a post racial America was nonsense from the very beginning. It was a bad idea, a bad notion, a bad formulation when it was first raised.
I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
The most miraculous process is watching a song go from a tiny idea in the middle of the night to something that 55,000 people are singing back to you.
Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case.
If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.
The idea that being human and having rights are equivalent - that rights are inherent - is unintelligible in a Darwinian world.
Every writer loves the idea of being able to go in and fix a problem and then leave without obligation. It's fun!
Republicans believed that their job was not governing but blocking any idea coming from President Obama and the Democrats, and wiping out Democrats in the 2012 election.
Typically creative people are usually not clock-slaves or list-makers, so the idea of enforcing goals and deadlines can be somewhat daunting.
This [ban bossy] campaign is indicative of one of the main problems with feminism today -- the idea that women are victims in need of more and more special protection.
I agree with the idea that there is a separation of church and state. That teachers should not be leading prayer - a particular kind of prayer in classrooms.
I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
'Bloom' is basically the idea that all flesh is grass, and that we can look at natural plant growth and organic material as outgrowths of the Earth.
What was really interesting to me about 'The Telegarden' was this idea of connecting the physical world, the natural world, and the social world through the Internet.
It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.
I realized that the "thing" and the "concept" were substituted for feeling and understood the falsity of the world of will and idea
