I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
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.
You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.
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.
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.
Radio is a really strange business now, too. There's a very narrow door and a very few people control what gets played.
What I've been noticing is people coming up to me and going, 'Are you an actor?' which is cool. That's ultimately what I want.
My parents are very cool and wildly supportive - maybe almost too much. I want to tell them to chill out.
I write because it's my way of finding cool ideas, thinking through hard problems and things I don't understand, and getting better at something.
I don't like the ironic tone that our pop culture, in the world, has taken. Everything is 'ironic.' Everything is 'cool.'
Nirvana is next level. The songs are really cool to connect with on a more mature level, and I don't think I really understood that when I was 15.
It's now possible to play and take lessons from any place of the world. The concept of physical distance doesn't exist in the online world, and that is so cool!
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.
My parents were vegetarians. I'd show up at school, this giant black kid, with none of the cool clothes and a tofu sandwich and celery sticks.
I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.
If people could walk around in suits of energy, that would be cool. Other than that, I don't think men should wear spandex.
