You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.
Rock n' roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.
'Faith and Will' sprang from my personal experience with passing through a dark spiritual time.
We had a great time making 'Chennai Express.' It was a learning experience working with Shah Rukh... it was a positive experience.
It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.
Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren't really important unless they're heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as the freedom of speaking.
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.
You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
If you are worried about what people think of you, you should go into politics. Real actors take chances.
Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.
Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.
I don't have ideas so much as there are things which constantly evolve... there are various threads or layers, if you like, which change.
A film seeking to create change on a difficult issue should not try to provide a definitive historical overview, nor present an op-ed style argument.
