I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'
You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
I got to work with Eli Vargas. Great guy. Huge in Spain. He's a heartthrob there. Who else? Terry Crews - he was really funny.
My girlfriend and I rented a nice house on the river and I was there for about two and a half months, and we were just out of Alabama. I hardly got to see Alabama.
I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.
The French have got to understand that a film is so expensive that it can no longer afford to be regional or even national in scope.
So when I got to 50 I just thought, Hold on: I'm thin. I've got my hair. I'm well off. I survived, you know.
My style was established in the Forties and Fifties, then got dragged through the decades and picked up a couple more things on the way.
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
When I first got out of drama school, my original manager tried to get me to change my name because people were having trouble spelling it and saying it.
Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique.
The iPad was my first splurge after I got my first paychecks. I paid off the debt, and I now bring the iPad with me to auditions.
My son, Jett, is two, and when I was pregnant my nose got bigger, so I got a new one. Everything was bigger for a while after having Jet, but I knew I needed to be able to walk up my stairs without being winded. It took me two years to lose 60 lbs - lots of walking, bike-riding, kick-boxing and performing.
I got married at 17, had three kids by the time I was 24, and have never had much time alone. I never had time to develop hobbies. Now, if I have nothing to do, I just find myself cleaning drawers incessantly.
When I got to New York, I immediately ran like a wild child to Central Park to touch the trees. I am like an animal about trees. I must be near them.
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
When the label came to me to say, 'would you like to do another record,' I said, 'Well I got these sixteen songs sitting here, so let's do it.' And that was pretty much it... I never stopped writing, it's just the way that the business is now; you just try to find a different model.
When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
I had a family, I had children, I got married. My ambition changed.
At some point, you've got to realize, you're either a leading man or you're not.
You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.
I've got a fondness for rabbits.
People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm.
I started watching some 'Doctor Who' recently on my own and got too scared. I had to watch it in the daytime - I'm pathetic.
When I was young, many people didn't know what figure skating was. Some who knew of it thought of it as dancing on ice. But, as I entered international competitions and got good results, many people got to know more about it and came to cheer for me.
Each year, you've got to talk about it more and more, you've got to have programs. You're doing these camps, you've got to talk about concussion awareness.
I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.
When I was in Philadelphia during the Depression in 1930 or '31, I got a very sad job as a night watchman in a garage. The cars in the garage had been abandoned by their owners, since they had lost their jobs and couldn't keep up the payments.
One of the epiphanies I had was that I got into publishing because I love literature.
The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
Baseball is my job, and I love it, but it can't be the only thing I've got going on.
My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.
Lighting is vital. Without that they've got nothing. And, of course, color and texture. When they showed me a little piece of Finding Nemo, I said this has got to be the biggest hit.
Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
Oftentimes, when we think of 3D, we think of things coming out of the screen, but actually, you've got this zero, this negative space, what they call the negative space, which is the scene, what's being filmed in the positive space of the audience. As you can have things come out, you can have all of this depth.
I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.
