That has been the concept to my life - setting very high objectives and trying to fulfil them.
We are trying to communicate a fulfilled ideal. Does anybody remember laughter?
The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.
They've got great parents; I'm just trying to be the fun uncle.
I'm trying to change the root of funk, trying to make it more progressive, more melodic and more lyrically structured.
'Short Term 12' was such a marathon. It's like trying to convey the same emotional depth as 'The Gambler' but with less time and a fingernail's worth of the budget.
We are trying to capture the widest possible audience all around the world. In other words, we are trying to capture the people who are even beyond the gaming population.
There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.
I love throwing down the gauntlet and trying our hand at that new tech.
I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we've been trying to generate material.
Digging into the creation of the Puritan mind-set involved really trying to wrap my head around extreme Calvinism and what that's all about. I now understand predestination, and I had to read the Geneva Bible cover-to-cover and read the gospels quite a bit to get into that world.
There was a war crimes trial because an American prisoner had been shot trying to escape. He had obviously been recaptured and shot, and that violated the Geneva Convention.
In 2012, when Mitt Romney named Russia as our greatest geopolitical foe, Democrats scoffed and accused Republicans of trying to ignite a new Cold War.
One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
I'm trying to find a little joy and happiness, a lot of giggles - and maybe some pretty shoes.
I spend a lot of my time trying to help leaders build cultures of productive givers.
My best monster bass sounds have come from FM8. People think they all come from Massive, but most of the ones that kids online are trying to recreate in Massive are actually from FM8. I also really like Sylenth1, my Tone2 Gladiator and some other granular soft synths as well.
You cannot score 10 goals from 10 shots - that's impossible - but I am trying.
But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.
I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.
