Most of what's tricky about comedy is the perception of it and the audience's expectation.
Great musicians accept everything that they hear and find something good. They take what they like and they throw away what they don't like
I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way
I have had a very combative relationship with critics because I'm very impatient with people that don't give my work the respect I feel it deserves.
You can't be idealistic in this world and not be crazy
Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.
People sometimes have a very hard time accepting change.
I just want to play for the people, give my new sound to them, and encourage them and be encouraged by people.
I feel like when you're a celebrity, people dehumanize you and they forget you're a real person.
It's really exciting to be in a film that people actually want to go and see! I was having to pay people to see my movies!
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.