Lightning Bolt and Hella are two bands I listen to, and there's a lot of finger tapping going on there.
It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.
These fledgling democracies in the Middle East, they're actually fighting for their freedom. And what are they rioting for in England? Leisurewear.
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
I was an economics major, which I enjoyed because I had a good business sense.
We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.
Music has become a bigger business, and with that there is more pressure to succeed; I think that it creates a negative pressure for being creative.
I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.
When I was very young I knew that I wanted to be in show business. I knew that I wanted to be an entertainer.
We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do.
The only way to get ahead in the music business these days is to call up all your friends. To pool your resources.
People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.
