My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.
The iPhone always has a different look from model to model - 'Tangerine' is quite smooth, but that was the 5s. I was using the iPhone 6s Plus for 'The Florida Project,' and it has what's called a rolling shutter, and it gave it this hyperactivity and a very different, jarring feel, and we liked that.
As a director, your expectation and reality don't always match up, and I think that that's... I think it's a little jarring.
I always take photos from my left side because my jaw line is stronger.
It's always fun to talk about jazz.
In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.
It's true I've always been attracted to the jazz band in an orchestral way, rather than a band way.
The way that we imitate each others' riffs is something that other bands don't do as much. If we're jamming with a jazz band, or I am jamming with a jazz band, I have to catch myself, the tendency is always to do that.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.
I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.
Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about jazz music.
Just like a comedian has a certain joke or a jazz musician has a riff that they know will get the crowd, a tap dancer always has a step.
I don't think I've ever been true to jazz. There's always a kind of jazz element to what I do. There are a very few genres that I haven't tried out, really, in what I've been doing. As a jazz musician, you can kind of mess about with things with a certain level of musicianship, which helps.
My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
Jazz scares me. I've witnessed so many incredible singers and jazz musicians. Pop and soul music have always been the things that I felt like I could do.
Jazz musicians have always taken the standards of their time and performed them with a jazz sensibility.
Jazz musicians have always tended to have cult followings, which is pretty wonderful.
I always wanted to sing a jazz record.
I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.
