Americans are generally very self-sufficient and I think generally averse to pretension, just as I am.
Awards are for young people. They just are.
It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
I tend to see my characters from inside and outside at once; this is a technique I use to retain a slight distance. It means my characters can act in unexpected ways on two axes: physical and mental. It isn't just, 'I thought this and then I did this,' which is the technique of the modern psychological novel.
Usually I play people who just keep babbling on and on and on.
Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.
Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.
I've been playing on Christmas for the last 10, 11, 12 years. So just got to get up early with the babies, and give them their toys and try to get a nap in and just come to play.
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
I've tried to have a regular haircut, but it just pops back up again, so this is the way it's going to be.
My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.
The financial markets tend to be just a backdrop for a novel, for a heist or something that isn't necessarily integral to it. On the whole, I don't think the financial world has been well served by novels.
When 'The Hummingbird's Daughter' came out, there was a certain backlash - 'Well, this isn't 'The Devil's Highway.'' That's just the way it goes.
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
Backstreet Boys, we don't stop. We just keep going.
Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
