Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star.
As an artist, expectations are basically your enemy. If you're truly making something to make it, then you're not thinking about anything else except what you're making.
I have great relationships with all my exes, and everyone in my life, because I honor the time and the love and the energy of those relationships. I'm happy to say that I can have everybody over for dinner.
I am 36 years old, I can't change. I have tried, trust me, but I can't. It's nice to get over yourself and just do it.
What inspires me is anxiety and the quest to try to change things in my life. . . . I got addicted to endings and beginnings and to the idea of always moving around. . . . Obviously, whenever you're going through something that's the best time to create, if you're going through something amazing, or horrible, or nothing at all you should be creating. Unfortunately the songwriters of today generally torture themselves to make sure they're writing good songs and take it a little too seriously.
We do have to remain true to the idea of honesty within what you want to do.
I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.
To believe in'the greater good' isto operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
Be very, very careful not to let the facts get mixed up with the truth.
I discovered Orson Welles in college; my freshman English professor screened 'Citizen Kane' for us, and I wound up writing a 20-page term paper on it.
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell. ' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that will inform and serve the consumer, and be sure you're saying it like it's never been said before.