First rule of change is controversy. You can't get away from it for the simple reason all issues are controversial. Change means movement, and movement means friction, and friction means heat, and heat means controversy.
It's challenging to find an identity as a young person if you don't have the sustenance of love, because you're being shipped around.
Remember my first tenet in getting dressed is how you feel in the morning. So if you're not being true blue to that, it usually shows.
You are who you are and what you are because of what has gone into your mind. You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Own every note I sing and sell it. Make a connection to the audience. That's what it comes down to, you know?
There may be the kinds of things that you may find interesting, but then there's also the practical reality of needing to make a living and this is what you have to choose from.
There's no borders or lines you can't cross anymore. Everything is getting blended with everything. That's the dope thing about music now. Some people don't like it, more of the older people. They want to, you know, go back to old-school New York hip-hop.
I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.
I want to work with a director who becomes my brother, my father, for two months. You give yourself over to that person.
For you are the makers of the flag and it is well that you glory in the making.
It's important to be a divergent musician and do a little bit of everything, except you have to make sure your fans are aware of it and that you string them along the right way.
If you look at other countries, you see they have different values: defend more, pass the ball out more, winning is holy. In England, you could say that sport itself is holy. They say, 'Look, guys, it's about more than just winning.'
Film is not literature - the image on screen is the information you get.
I mean, price is price. It's just where you want to spend your money.
Film is an emotional medium; it's not a logical medium. It's not an intellectual medium, so every decision you make as a filmmaker and an actor has to be emotional in some way, even in the rejection of logic.
What you want to do is, you want to get away from people being afraid to show their work, which is the first thing, because they don't want to be shot down.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
You know very well that unless you're a scientist, it's much more important for a theory to be shapely, than for it to be true.
Every Shania Twain interview ends with someone asking, 'Which Beatles album have you always wanted to cover, given the chance?'
If you look not just at the Arab Spring, but at what I call the 'Youth Spring' that has started in Europe, young people are starting to find a voice, and they are not looking to the traditional media to reflect that.
There's inevitably something missing when you grow up in this kind of an environment when your parents travel a lot. When your father is famous, you are looked at and expected of. There are standards you need to meet.
If people take the trouble to cook, you should take the trouble to eat.
The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.
You CAN have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.
You can't destroy America by destroying our elite. Think about America's elite. Think about it down through history. Destroy our elite, and about half the time, you're doing us a favor.
Anything you can do needs to be done, so pick up the tool of your choice and get started.
If you've got kids who aren't being looked after by their parents, there's only so many times you can try and intervene to get that right.
Books are magic: you never know where they're going to end up.
I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
Do you know it was a year a ago today?
The wardrobe is always the last piece of the puzzle. When you step into the clothing, that's the final step to figuring out that character.
If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.
If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.
I am constantly working out-circuit training, jumping rope, and stair-stepping, and sticking to 1200 calories a day. It can't be something that you're doing to lose weight, and then once you do, you're done. I do it every day of my life.
