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.
No, what is important is neither linearity or non-linearity, but the change, the degree of change from something that doesn't move to other events with different tempos in particular.
I've always thought photography was a bit of an adventure, so to come home with the film, develop it, then look at the results has more of a sense of excitement.
When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation.
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
I like to present something that the people haven't seen or haven't heard before. Otherwise they might as well just stay home and play the record.
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.
There's a lot more responsibility at home, so a tour is like the opposite for me. It's like a breath of fresh air.
When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.
The only way you can influence your fate is to put your soul into your performance and hope it registers with the audience.
As I travel across the country speaking about MS, perhaps I can offer others comfort and hope.
The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day.
