I am not myself; I am the potential of myself.
When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.
Most people don't take some things into consideration. When they hear an album, they hear the artist or they hear the lyric or they hear the melody. But they don't really think about the environment in which it was recorded, which is so important. It's that thing that determines what the album sounds like.
Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
Don't look at the poster on your wall and think 'I could never do that. ' Look at the poster on your wall and think 'I'm gonna do that!'
Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you've got.
Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.
Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?
As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
Sohn means "son" in German. I loved the idea of the word, because it's short and it was also important for me to have an "o" sound in my name. I like the idea of being the son of yourself - a bit of a rebirth, in a way. Also, I love the fact that it's such a blank word.