I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
I'm an entertainer. I get up on stage and I try to make people enjoy my music, and that political arena - I'm going to stay out of it, right out.
What does it mean to a person whose identity is very wrapped up in the music she makes, if her worth is measured by how many records she sells?
Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.
It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.
What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
People always accuse me of making these dark, depressing movies. 'Why do you have to pick up on real issues? People are so exhausted and miserable.'
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace.
Three or four years ago, I got really caught up in the movies people were making, the opportunities they were getting, and I was looking at them with bitterness.
People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
Babies make you do things for them. They get you up and they get you moving.
I didn't ask anyone to make me a poster boy, because poster boys always end up on dart boards.
I don’t talk about my personal life so they [the media] had to make one up for me.
One way to organize your thoughts is to tidy up, even if it's in places where it makes no sense at all.
Sometimes the song title comes with the songs, other times you just sorta make something up afterwards.
It is the most important contribution we can make to speeding up reunification.
If what you do doesn’t make others better at what they do then you are not living up to your potential.
I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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