There was a time when I was - after my very first record from Nashville, I thought I might not be one of those who actually really makes it, and I may end up back in Canada, just playing clubs. And that might - this might have just been it.
I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.
I was a child during the Lebanese civil war, and I remember Israeli bombardments. So growing up, my view of Israel was completely negative. I'm not coming from a neutral place, but with time, I've had to re-examine my thinking.
But he knew people and he was head writer for Have Gun Will Travel, and if you took those early Star Treks that we did and put us in a western wardrobe and put us on wagon train going west, we can say the same lines.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
Pete Dunham: Fuckin' "journos." Look at this. West Ham wins three-nill in a blinding performance and our little scrap makes the headline. Bloody muckrakers.
Frank: How can you trust a man who wears both a belt and suspenders? The man can't even trust his own pants.
Frank: Who are you? Harmonica: Jim Cooper, Chuck Youngblood. Frank: More dead men. Harmonica: They were all alive until they met you, Frank.
Cheyenne's Lieutenant: Cheyenne. We thought we'd never make it. Cheyenne: It's all right. You're right on time... to bury my escort.
Jill: You wake up one morning and say "World, I know you! From now on there are no more surprises!".
Woody: Hey, Etch... Draw! [Etch draws a picture of a gun] Woody: D'oh! Got me again! Etch, you've been working on that draw. Fastest knobs in the west.
Wicked Witch of the West: Just try and stay out of my way. Just try! I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
Maria: My brother is a silly watchdog! Bernardo: Ah, my sister is a precious jewel! Anita: What am I, cut glass?
The Jets: [singing] Here come the Jets, like a bat out of hell - Someone gets in our way, someone don't feel so well.
Tony: [angrily] I ain't playing anymore, CAN'T ANY OF YOU GET THAT? Anybodys, Tomboy: [agitatedly] BUT THE GANG! Tony: You're a girl! be a girl and beat it!
Anybodys, Tomboy: [spitefully] Bernardo's girl wants to help? Action: Even a greaseball's got feelin's. Anybodys, Tomboy: But she wants to help get Tony! Anita: [panicking] NO!
Glad Hand, Social Worker Leading Dance: I want you all the form two circles. The boys on the outside and the girls on the inside. Action: Where will you be?
We went into that knowing that we were never going to sell a major record 'cause we didn't sound like these bands, so I just thought this was an opportunity for us to make the kind of records that we wanted and make some money at the same time.
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
The first time I had money, I was extravagant, but then you realise it's not just about that. If I lost it all tomorrow, it wouldn't be me that's hurt, it would be my babies. It would be more about people's opinion of me that would concern me.
I grew up thinking anything was possible simply because of seeing women in power - like, you know, running the country. Which is a thought that continues to give Americans indigestion... Direction is about having a vision, but the practice of being a...
