For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

The most important thing in my father's life? World peace. Me and my brother. My mom.

For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

My tendency is to be very experimental.

I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.

I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music.

I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.

Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.

Making films is great. You've got 100 people around and you're all dressing up and making weird art-it's a fun group activity.

It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.

I like songs that go to different places and then come back.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

I like music because it's the only invisible art form.

Putting out commercial pieces and promoting them and trying to sell them to people is not necessarily what it means to be an artist.

I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.

There's no single movement out there. It's not like in the '60s, when Revolver came out and that's just it for the next year.

I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.

I did a record with a producer, and the good producers eat up the budget, so I didn't have any budget left to produce this record. I had to produce it myself.

I'm not that in control of myself that I could be specific about exactly the way I'm doing everything as it happens. I'm just trying my best.

I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.

The work I've done, I'm really feeling the effects of it.

Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.

I'm lucky that a lot of my friends are in the entertainment industry.

There are only really a few stories to tell in the end, and betrayal and the failure of love is one of those good stories to tell.

I try not to do anything by formula.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

Im trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.

I've been waiting for techno to die. I was in Germany once and this guy was telling me that techno was dead, and then he proceeded to play me techno for hours.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.