I don't know what's going to happen. I'm flavor of the month at the moment, but somebody else is going to roll around the corner in three months' time. I just want to keep working. I can't stop!
Music has the power to make me feel good like nothing else does. It gives me some peace for a while. Takes me back to who I really am.
The thing is, emotion - if it's visibly felt by the writer - will go through all the processes it takes to publish a story and still hit the reader right in the gut. But you have to really mean it.
I learnt early on that your audience take the songs in the way they want to rather than the way you might want them too.
I miss the movies. Still, I understood that my kind of movie has had its day. I thought it was over for me.
I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.
I had the sets that meant so much to this character built - right in my home, especially the kitchen, which was important both for her character and for your introduction to her when Albert comes to visit.
I gave it all that I had, and it's gratifying that others seem to be receiving it so well.
I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.
What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.
That's what writing is all about, after all, making others see what you have put down on the page and believing that it does, or could, exist and you want to go there.
Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.
I have always been fascinated with those who try to look over the horizon and see things that are coming at us.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.
I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.
Also for me it was different because I play a lot of villains and in this one I play a dad and I play a good guy, basically. He's the Secretary of the Treasury. I never had a job like that.
George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
I'd love to do a character with a wife, a nice little house, a couple of kids, a dog, maybe a bit of singing, and no guns and no killing, but nobody offers me those kind of parts.
I will perform My Heart Will Go On for the rest of my life and it will always remain a very emotional experience for me.
Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.
I looked in the audience. There were no strangers. Everybody was singing and cheering and hugging. That was a beautiful picture to look at.
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.
One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, and made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma.
The first one was quite cheap, but that was expensive for us. For my folks to buy on the Never Never. It was quite, you know, a rare object to have and I gained quite a lot of status by having this.
I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it.
We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.
I started at 5 years old in the kitchen table with my family supporting me. I know where I'm from and I know exactly where I'm going.
They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
Yeah, and I went straight into a fantasy world. Just stepped straight into the abyss. You know, I was gone and kids used to walk past my front room, cause I lived on the green.
I don't try to sound like anyone but me anymore. If something is out of my element, I try to avoid it.
