I strongly believe in political activity that has to do with choices - and not consensus that sometimes covers problems and doesn't resolve them.
Making art in America is sort of a political statement in and of itself. It's not the best environment for that sometimes.
I sometimes ponder on variation form and it seems to me it ought to be more restrained, purer.
Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
I'm just very body-conscious. Sometimes I'm really proud that I don't look like other pop stars. But there's also moments where I'm like, 'Ugh, I wish I had abs like Bieber.'
Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.
Sometimes music can really seem like a popularity contest with beautiful people.
I like to think that I'm a populist entertainer, but I'm a little bit idiosyncratic, and sometimes the networks wouldn't really roll with that.
Sometimes in Portland I'm like, 'Who is funding this city?' It's doing great - there's all these new shops; there's a synthesizer store. Where is this coming from?
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
Sometimes you're not even sure which of your stories were failures. There are things I've written that I thought were complete catastrophes when I finished with them that have gone on to generate some of my most positive feedback.
Getting beaten is sometimes a good thing. If you're a positive person, you can turn it around and make it into a good thing.
Although sometimes it's very difficult, if you're willing to look hard enough, you can find positives in every situation.
I've got every possible thing I could want. And I wondered, 'Why am I so depressed?' I still don't know sometimes.
What I've learned is sometimes it's good not to have all the same actions and have all the same takes. The variety you provide gives the director later on in post-production the ability to construct a more interesting performance as he puts the movie together.
I'm a visual person, so it always starts with a picture, and then I get obsessed with the idea, sometimes too much. I have these blank books in which I take notes, and I add postcards and other physical items.
Sometimes I have chosen to see films just by their posters.
British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or 'meta', or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.
We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.
Sometimes we postpone releases because of another big film or some other reasons. In the end, the big film, too, postpones, and the impact is on the small films. So once you decide on a release date, you have to go ahead with it.
