I just can't sit down and write three verses and a chorus and a bridge anymore. It just don't find it inspiring.
When I sit down and sign up for something, I vet where the people are coming from.
At great, great remove sit the head of General Electric, the head of News Corp, the head of Viacom, or the head of this giant international corporation that wants these ratings.
I don't do a lot when I'm in Gascony. I swim and play the odd game of golf, but mainly I sit around. We're set an hour-and-a-half from the Pyrenees and an hour-and-a-half from the Bay of Biscay, so we get plenty of storms. But we're surrounded by vines and sunflowers - it's lovely.
Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
It's very rare - and it does happen on occasion - where I'll take a piece of lyric and I'll just sit down and purposefully craft that melody around that lyric because I think the lyric is the wellspring for the song, without question.
In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
I just always wanted to sit in a casting session and see all of the train wrecks that come in.
Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.
I was a staff songwriter for Combine Music Publishing in Nashville for seven years. I'd sit around with a groups of friends with a Yamaha piano and a tape recorder and crank out songs.