With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.
The special relationship between the region and a regional celebrity means that people feel that they have a special investment in you.
They say it's better to bury your sadness in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to wake from its sleep and burst into green.
I find it amusing on one level, poignant on another, when people try to get recognition from an outside source. It's sad.
House music originated in America, and it has always been around, but I guess it just got a tighter hold on Europe and other parts of the world.
When I started working on electronic music, that was after the rave period. I haven't even seen that part of it that much.
Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.
My parents have a wonderful marriage, for many years. But I can't commit myself for such a long time.
Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversation starter. Nor was it a favoured activity for dysfunctional couples or suffering individuals.
I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
It's hard - some people get inspired by a feeling, but I'm mostly inspired by melodies.
I make sure to use both Twitter and Facebook a lot which helps me connect to the fans.
I would say I've always lived creativity, but now I - I do it with an intention that's got a completely different power.
It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.
I've worked with an awful lot of people. Katy Hepburn, Spencer Tracy.
She read all sorts of things: travels, and sermons, and old magazines. Nothing was so dull that she couldn't get through with it. Anything really interesting absorbed her so that she never knew what was going on about her. The little girls to whose h...
One of the questions that surprised me most was this: “Mommy, if Jesus comes to live inside my heart, will I explode?” “No!” I proclaimed as the children and I headed to the Nile River for a few of them to be baptized that day. Then I thought...
I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best.
More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.
A good band is like a team. You want to have the right balance. It's not always the best people you need, but the right ones for the job.
I have complete artistic control, and I just do my best album every time and trust it to fate.
