It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
I'm fortunate in that I'm a lecturer too and this gets me out and about and away from the computer. I also have loads of friends all around the world, plus a core group of special people in my life that I can lean on, chat to, or just hang with.
I mean, I could go ahead and cut my head off in the guillotine, and it looks great,. . . Well, now you turn on CNN and guys are really getting their heads cut off. . . . As insane as our fantasy world gets, it's nowhere near as scary as reality.
When my mother gets a prompt 'Do you want to download this?' she's going to say yes. It's disingenuous for Microsoft to give you all of these tools with which to hang yourself, and when you do, then say it's your fault.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process that it becomes acceptable to pass them on. When a song wants to be written, it will be written. When it does come, I will very rarely go back and edit lyrics. I'm quite a rational human being, and the only part of my life that I can't rationalise, or can't make sense of, is how a song gets written or why.
I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time. Everyone goes to work and I'll do a few hours of writing, then I'll mess about for a bit and come back to it. By the time I go home I'm done. I think it's really good to keep that kind of a routine with writing. I find that when I don't do that, it's really hard to get back into that headspace of writing.
In general, a little controversy isn't harmful: if anything, it gets people interested.
What happens with Mad Men, its like an Elvis Costello album; Ill watch it, and then I immediately have to watch it again. AMC will play it back-to-back. I have a tendency to yell at it when my wifes not around because if she catches me yelling at Mad Men, then it gets weird.
The more people we have on our team. the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
For the introvert, conversation can be a very limited forum for self expression. When a song moves you, a writer gets you or a theory enlightens you, you and its creator are connecting in a realm beyond sight or speech.
It takes no genius to observe that a one-man band never gets very big
The trouble with normal is it only gets worse.
He's the sort of guy that gets a laugh out of people.
The world is a mess. The world is as angry as it gets.
How rude for the created to tell the Creator "I wasn't worth it. You didn't do a good job when you made me. I wasn't worth dying for. " You don't get a choice! He's the one who gets to decide.
Hip-hop is really standoffish. It's really competitive and it's really about who's number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.
The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent.
Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.
