I'm not a trust-fund type.
It is a game you have to play. You have to tour your ass off. It's just always "where am I now" versus "where could I be?" It's constant competition with yourself. But I'm up for it.
I'll acknowledge that I'm from Canada but I don't think I'll acknowledge that I'm Canadian.
Everybody now who's playing in Unicorn band is deeply schooled in music. I'm the only one who's self-taught, which I think is a bit hilarious because I'm leading the band and writing the songs, but I'm surrounded by such overwhelmingly competent musicians.
You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
When people all wear the same thing, people notice. They aren't stupid. People don't go, "Oh, you can see right through them!"
I just think if you're gonna play a show you should try and look nice.
Working with Steven Spielberg, how bad could it be? But "1941" was one of those excessively big movies where every action scene was done and re-done and re-done again. It was so overproduced and overly expensive. And it wasn't terribly funny.
I got out of the elevator and confronted Mr. Wexler. “Killing is wrong. ” “We kill chickens,” Mr. Wexler said. “We kill cows. We kill trees. So big deal, we kill some drug dealers. ” It was hard to argue with that kind of logic because I like cows and chickens and trees much better than drug dealers.
That wasn't good, that wasn't sportsmanship. I was amazed he took that shot.
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.