How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.
Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.
Given my age, I am pretty near the end, probably, of my career as a writer, a scholar, a teacher. And I wanted to speak of things I will not be able to do.
The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.
I got a phone call from Fearne Cotton. It was amazing! I literally couldn't believe it. It was so cool. It was the night before I was going on her show to sing on the 'Live Lounge.' She was so lovely.
I think I went to Italy initially for the art, architecture, food and history, but I stayed there because of the people in Cortona.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
I remember when I was in art classes, I hated following the assignments. And I would get in trouble for doing something totally different or taking it in a weird direction.
I wish my work would be recognized by a larger crowd of people as more art than be stuck with the cartoonist label for the rest of my life.
Habitual texters may not only cheat their existing relationships, they can also limit their ability to form future ones since they don't get to practice the art of interpreting nonverbal visual cues.
How do you make any sense of history, art or literature without knowing the stories and iconography of your own culture and all the world's main religions?
The newsprint thesp celebrity interview as a middle-brow art form suffers from desperate overproduction. There'll be at least 10 in the broadsheets today and every Sunday hereafter.
He was the first to conceive of movies as an art form. His belief was that if the traditional art form would not find room for him, then he would make an art form of his own.
Sakaki: "...Why can't we just talk it over...?" Tomo: "You can't talk to cats.
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.
On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.
Kyoya: A single day can make all the difference.
Ando como el que va por su destino oyendo un clima oscuro de relojes, de manos, de preguntas, de papeles, de ensangrentados cuervos y cordeles.
