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 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 was a single dad in New York City, raising a child and pursuing a career.

People are always looking at their phones and computer. It's the first place people turn in the morning and where everyone's keeping in touch and getting their news.

The herd instinct among forecasters makes sheep look like independent thinkers.

Probably the best caddies are the smartest ones and the ones that are switched on mentally more than some of the others maybe.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Men and women aren't too dissimilar.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

If you ask the CEO of some major corporation what he does, he will say, in all honesty, that he is slaving 20 hours a day to provide his customers with the best goods or services he can and creating the best possible working conditions for his employees.

It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.

I'm not sure I'm adult yet.

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that attitude, follow it.

I'm convinced that there's a new way to define capitalism, and that the definition should include three ingredients - that we love our work, that we are building a traditionally successful business, and that we are having some positive impact in the world, whether it's local or global.

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is.

Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily, and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.