I know what it takes to be fast and I feel like every year I learn valuable lessons about how to be better the next time.
Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time.
I was a waitress for nine years, which I don't regret at all. It taught me about discipline. I was always writing; it took a long time to make a career of it.
As a result, I had to get my own playground which was my band Colours. This band lasted for about eight years and then the air was out of it and it was time to finish.
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
Of course, I've always read. I started when I was four years old and just didn't stop. I read all the time.
Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.
The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But at the actual time of revolution it was easy, and this was due to the peasants.
I've been directing for 25 years almost, and I've only directed nine films in that time because I like to be careful.
I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?
It took some time to gather the research and develop it into the storyline, and to finally finish an origin myth poem that I had been working on for twenty years.
Every time I walk down one of those red carpets, you think I'd be used to it after all these years, but it's like it's happening for the first time.
I was proud to be a Tory Member of Parliament for twelve years, proud to represent Buckingham as a Tory, proud to have voted with my party 99% of the time as the record shows.
Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.
You never forget the discovery years. First kisses. The first time you try certain foods.
I was an English major at UCLA when I was 18, and then I left after a year to start acting. I was educating myself during that time.
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
I do probably 60 concerts a year in the States. And I go out to clubs in the week. I'm doing new stuff all the time.
Luckily, with 'The Collector' the first time around, it really took off in the DVD world and foreign, so it was just a pleasant surprise that a couple of years later there we were, doing it again.
Just the fact that that Europe album 'The Final Countdown' came out in 1986 and 'Rad' came out in 1986... I'm starting to think that maybe 1986 is my favorite year, of all time!
A lot of people have wondered what I've been up to. I retired from my career after 24 years. My feeling was that it was time to play my biggest part - Myself!
