When I write lyrics, it's only when I'm angry or hurt or sad. So lyrically it's never really easy going. And the music is always really intense.
I'm difficult for management. That's why I have the reputation because nobody challenges management.
I'm a natural management guy. I had forgotten that. And I forgot how much I hate it.
I stand up to people.
As part of the process by which you hire me, you hire me. You just don't hire an hour of me to do a performance.
If you're a baseball fan and you don't know what BP is, you're working in a mine without one of those helmets with the lights on it.
Just a threat of a boycott has got the Russians spinning.
And I am pretty sure that's the point of reading fiction -- so someone else can say in a way you never would have something you recognize immediately.
For what can be imagined more beautiful than the sight of a perfectly just city rejoicing in justice alone.
I have been kicked out of my home for being gay. I felt that.
I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.