Sometimes I'll dress like a boy, sometimes I'll dress like a Japanese crazy teenybopper. I have clothes from the 7th grade that I've kept and still wear.
It's hard to talk about it without sounding like a hippie. But trees are really inspiring to me. They're like the masters of the earth.
It's not the case of turning in a bunch of songs and recording the next month. I think you're looking for songs all year long and you're writing all year long.
Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
I don't swear much; I've taken those words out of my vocabulary, and having kids, you have to have two sets of language!
To me, that is the essence of me as a photographer. It is those ideas, working with them, formulating them and eventually putting them down on paper, photographing them and then going on to the next step.
If you're not going to tell something if you're not going to expose something it's real easy to go in and photograph from behind the camera and not expose any of your weaknesses.
It doesn't matter what you do, as long as you're fulfilling that inner need, and for me the need is more the process than the finished product. My photographs are stories of the process.
We tune down a full step when we play but I never miss a note. I've learned how to keep my voice.
Well, you know I grew up wanting to be a Clemson Tiger and I ended up being able to play there and I went to school there.
I take things like honor and loyalty seriously. It's more important to me than any materialistic thing or any fame I could have.
As a result of that, America desires a moderate Islam; an Islam that America can control; an Islam that America can give direction to and give orders to its leaders.
Obviously you can't please everyone. I'm sure some people say, 'Bloody old Len Goodman gets on my nerves.'
I am a little bit of a softie, yes. Actually I don't think it's softness, I think it's kindness.
It worries me that young singers think you can shortcut the training and go straight to fame and fortune, and programmes like Pop Idol have encouraged that.
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
What is wrong with changing your mind because the facts changed? But you have to be able to say why you changed your mind and how the facts changed.
There is no earthly reason why a solo string instrument or voice, having the possibility to play or sing pure intonation, should want, or try, to be tempered.
It was a kind of paralysis you would get from tendonitis and I would last about five to ten minutes into the set and it would set in and I really couldn't play.
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.
I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.
