I've never worked hands-on with a producer. I've been on my own writing, just taking beats and doing what I have to do. I've been on my own. To have Timbaland invite me in and say that 'I want to work with you' is amazing. He's a legend.
The joy of acting for me is to be able to experience emotions in a safe environment. You can't scream and cry in the street because everybody will look. If you do it on a movie set, you get applauded.
Someone is out there looking to put you out of business. Someone is out there who thinks they have a better idea than you have. A better solution than you have. A better or more efficient product than you have.
I'm a person who has a lot of energy. So, yes, I don't really stop to rest or de-stress. I just keep going. I figure that if you don't stop, then you'll never notice how tired you are.
Now, you can just get a laptop, get some software, put a microphone on it and make a record. You have to know how to do it. It does help if you've had 35 or 40 years of experience in the studio. But, it still levels the playing field so artists can record their own stuff.
I think it's part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class - you're always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.
On a meaningful day, everything you wear can have meaning. It becomes what I wore That Day, whether that day is a beginning or an end.
I'd love to knock an audience cold with one note, but what do you do for the rest of the evening?
All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.
In any story universe, you don't just want to keep adding to it when there are places and planets that exist that will already achieve the same thing for you story-wise. You don't want to just keep making it bigger for no good reason.
People tell you what you have to wear and do, and I've never been a fan of it.
If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
I get inhabited by a character and then you mourn it. There's a period of mourning for me, definitely.
One of the nice things about the Senior Tour is that we can take a cart and cooler. If your game is not going well, you can always have a picnic.
If you actually relax your vocal cords they actually work better.
You want to find a place where, because of your skills, you can make an impact.
Anytime you ride against the best in the world, it becomes a learning process.
Yoga's hard for me, but I know you can really feel the difference when you do it consistently. I'd rather be playing basketball.
I just love coming to Vegas. There is always a good energy here; the minute you get off the plane, it is happy. Every experience I have had here is fun, and everyone is in a good mood; they are happy, and they let it go. I like that. It is refreshing to me.
When I was touring in Texas, that was before iPods and Spotify. Driving around through towns, I had to, out of necessity, scroll the radio. Whatever region of the country you are in, that's a great way to find out what they listen to. You find music wherever you are, and that becomes the soundtrack for whatever your road trip is.
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
I believe all positive things and negative things are valuable because they shape you.
Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
You can enjoy a $15 bottle of wine as much as you can enjoy a $100 bottle of wine.
It has always appeared to me, that there is so much to be done in this world, that all self-inflicted suffering which cannot be turned to good account for others, is a loss - a loss, if you may so express it, to the spiritual world.
One of the best things about growing up in New Zealand is that if you are prepared to work hard and have faith in yourself, truly anything is possible.
To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.
But if you know that something has been really vicious, you don't read it, you don't let it into your head. What's damaging is when sentences go through your head and you burn with the injustice of it.
I wish I could wear 10 dresses to my wedding. It's so sad that you put it in storage and then never see it again. I am going to sleep in mine after I wear it.
You know how to tell if the teacher is hung over? Movie Day.
You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
Have a very good reason for everything you do.
You have to be a good team, but you have to be lucky and stay away from injuries.
Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them.
It's so liberating to play a song in front of 50,000 people that you've never played before. Not something you played a long time ago and have forgotten: Never. Played. Before. There's something magical about it.
Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.
