Aufrichtigkeit / Sincerity Aussehen / Look Einfachheit / Simplicity Kunst / Artistry Machen / Make Musik / Music Schöpfer / Creator Tom Tom wartet / Tom Waits Verbindung / Connection Wartet / Waits Wollen / Want
At first, I didn't want to do unicorns. The artist in me said no. Then I thought, 'Wait a minute: this is commercial art. Let's do what's going to sell.'
I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music.
I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.
Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.
There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.
