Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
With sad music, or music that's perceived as sad, there's a sense of solidarity that can be really powerful. My songs are all joyful to me.
Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.
The closest I've come to knowing myself is in losing myself. That's why I loved football before I loved music. I could lose myself in it.
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.
I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
Our music may sound big emotionally, but that's more to do with the playing, the level of musicianship and the full-on energy. Often, the lyrics are often quite small and focused.
There's an imbalance when if a woman goes out for a walk at 3 in the morning and something happens to her it was somehow her fault, and with a man that's not true.
Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
I'm very flattered to be called a style icon! But it's simple, my style; it's just men's suits and shoes. That's the basic premise.
I am trying to be a girl who is real and has an opinion. Might say stupid things but not scared of men, and for me that's important.
To me all men are boy-men. I don't know any man that's actually mature.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
I'm simply the mom who makes the lunch, drives to school, finds where the toys are, washes the clothes, and I'm here to play. And that's all I should be.
I cannot be a placard waver for every campaign; that's why I have mostly kept quiet about gay marriage.
My parents had a wonderful marriage, but it was a very dependent relationship. My mother was entirely dependent on my father because that's how it was in those days.
That's my prescription for a happy marriage - marry someone who doesn't do anything similar to what you do.
The trick of making movies in this culture is how to not give up everything that makes them worthwhile in order to get them made - and that's a tricky balance.
I see the tool set being the same and maybe doing virtual movies and that's fine for some stories but not for others. And maybe make all CG movies but they are already doing it.
