I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
There is an urgent need for Americans to look deeply into themselves and their actions, and musical poetry is perhaps the most effective mirror available. Every newspaper headline is a potential song.
I have a much better relationship with the press than I did, I think because I stood my ground.
I struggled with feeling confident for a long time, but I think it's important to be strong and not compromise for anyone or a relationship - I'm drawn to that.
You can listen to carpenters talk for hours in Ireland. The people have a relationship to words that I don't think you will run into anyplace in the world.
Prince and I were just friends. I think he would have been happy to have had a relationship.
When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
I've been working on my relationship with my parents and my sister over the years. We have become more close. I think having kids makes you want to keep the gang together.
I don't know if it's possible to live the rock 'n roll lifestyle and still be romantic.
Building a little bonfire at night on the beach and lying on a blanket with my wife under the stars is not only sexy, it's romantic.
I'm a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts - not expensive things, just romantic things.
In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.
I think I've only done one horror movie, Psycho III. That was a walk in the park compared to a romantic comedy.
That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.
I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
On 'The Office,' so much of the show is about disguising your true feelings and your romantic feelings because it was a mock documentary.
I don't feel like a romantic lead; I guess I feel more like a character actor.
I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.
I'm a complete romantic - it's why I always get married. Someone should really stop me.
If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.
