When I first started acting in movies - as probably a lot of naive young actors do - I made a list of directors that I wanted to work with and sent it to my agent at the time.
I spend a lot of time writing in New York.
Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.
I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.
Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.
It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.
I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.
The only difference between us is that I am aware of my natural state, while you are bemused. . . . We discover it by being earnest, by searching, enquiring, questioning daily and hourly, by giving one's life to this discovery.
My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.
There's nothing on my mind that couldn't be expressed by a long insane outburst of hysterical rage.
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.