I enjoy every minute, because there are going to be a lot of moments in your future that you're going to wish you held onto longer.
The second album of Black Mages is currently in the process of recording and the basic tracks have already been completed. Hopefully sometime in the future we will be able to have a concert.
I'll tell you what I love about directing: the surprise. You never know what's going to happen with your piece until an audience weighs in.
I know that Kelly Clarkson is going to continue to have an important career. And I believe it will be a lasting one.
I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave.
The early Bob Dylan was compulsively drawn to the conflict between stability and the search for immortality.
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.
You've just got to trust your instincts and realize that you can't please all the people all the time. You've got to please yourself ultimately in the end.
When you're playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone.
I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?
Perry: [on the phone] What do you mean they gave her back?
A lot of DJs don't realize they're here today and gone tomorrow. They're literally taking jets to every show. It's crazy how much money they're spending.
The program director at a radio station, by the way, is not the superstar. If he was a superstar, he'd be out creating songs, but he's not. But he wants to act like he has control and power.
What I do believe in is other worlds and spirits. There is some other power in control - levels of energy that perhaps we don't see.
As a jazz musician, you have individual power to create the sound. You also have a responsibility to function in the context of other people who have that power also.
I was never raised with the traditional story of creation in religion, and because of that I think I had a lot of questions. And evolution, the evolutionary narrative, helped provide some of that for me.
I am spiritual but not massively religious, and I don't go to church. If someone said 'What religion are you?' I would say 'Christian.' But I don't practice.
I was sort of born into a Subud cult that has ties to Islam and Indonesia and Middle Eastern spiritualism. My parents were kind of trial-and-error when it came to religion.
Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
