I want to be an actress, not a personality.
I actually dream a lot of songs, and I try to be good about voice-memoing ideas.
I've dreamed about performing songs, songs that don't even exist, as a complete song.
Most of the time I wind up with a sleepily mumbled melodic line, sometimes with words, sometimes not. But then with my waking brain I have to decide whether it's worth. . . I mean, sometimes it's not worth it.
Sometimes a loss that just comes out of left field rings in a very weird way when you have actually sort of relied on this small moment with this or that person, as a moment that actually has defined something for you in your life.
I gotta make a living somehow, and make ends meet. I accept the idea of having a retirement.
I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.
The current system is organized around financial values over life values. We need to shift that locus of power down to the community level because the financial markets recognize only money and thereby only financial values.
Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"
Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
when people say you're charming you are in deep trouble.