We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.
I think every album serves as a step in your career.
For me, my music has always been like an open diary.
Family is what really runs through my head. I'm usually bombarded with tons of phone calls, but I'm usually bombarded with love as well.
I love my family; they're such great people and they really love what I do.
I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.
Real persuasion comes from putting more of you into everything you say. Words have an effect. Words loaded with emotion have a powerful effect.
Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.
I'm not a very savvy operator - it's not who I am, it's not what I do - and so I have to go at things in ways that suit me. I just write what I write and the stuff finds its vagrant way in the world, somehow. The venues appear; the work always finds a home, eventually.
When you're young and beautiful, you're paranoid and miserable.