My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.
It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I've done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they're always poems first.
We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.
I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
A big part of making music is the discovery aspect, is the surprise aspect. That's why I think I'll always love sampling. Because it involves combining the music fandom: collecting, searching, discovering music history, and artifacts of recording that you may not have known existed and you just kind of unlock parts of your brain, you know?
Sometimes, we need an obstacle to challenge us and push us further than we would if things were always status quo. I'd say one example is the market crashing. It's like, just when we started to get into a rhythm, everything changed! But, it taught us a great deal about how we do business and how we can improve.
So if you're on tour for eight months, a year... or whatever it is you definitely don't want arguments and I'm happy to say that I've always had a really nice bunch of people around me all the time.
The thing in basketball is you always want to be free. I don't want to be hugged up to my guy. When we're body to body, I want to control you.
I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
We'd love it if everybody had a Kickstarter project. I believe that everyone has some kind of creative project that they think about - whether it's something small they'd like to do over a weekend with friends, or it's the film they've always wanted to make, whatever.
I think what's always been interesting to me than the science and the criminality with this job is what happens to your persona, your disposition, after day in and day out dealing with life and death.
The places I've worked in the past, I always stayed three years and moved on.
You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play something more unexpected, so that's when I got interested in learning to play the guitar.
My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I've always learnt by watching what other people do. It's the same with my writing. I write what I know. Structurally, I write in a very undisciplined way.
There's always something going on, but thank goodness these days it's with a clear head, which helps me massively.
They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.
I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
I always go back to Harry Truman: Should we drop an atomic bomb to save 100,000 lives? That's a hell of a decision to make. Did he make that decision by himself? No, he had advisers.
I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same.
When I was playing in Seattle and Orlando, I did a lot of work with the Ronald McDonald House. I've always had a special thing for kids, and I know how important it is for kids to have good role models. They push us to that next level.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
I've been married to Kris for 21 years, and there have always been rocky times. And it's nothing special.
I've done every tour with them since then and will always be with them as long as they're together.
People always grow and mature.
If someone suddenly lost their director the day before shooting and wanted me to step in, I'd be willing to. But I'd do brain surgery the same way. I'm always up for something new.
People ask, like, 'How are you going to incorporate what you do onstage into everything else?' I'm not too worried about that. Whether it's theater or a TV show idea, or an animated thing or, I don't know, an animated screensaver. I really just want to keep creating things. And I've always been able to do that.
The difference being that in films, unlike in life, good does always win over evil in the end.
I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.
But my favorite work is always my next piece.
I was always trying on clothes, always really into fashion, ever since probably kindergarten.
I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.
I think, in music, you're always hoping that you'll have a like-minded audience and that the music you like making will appeal to them, too.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
I've always found that I personally love to observe things, and I'm good at observing things.
I always said what I thought and I didn't hold anything back.
