When I came up, there was room for the new and the old. For every new artist, an old one didn't have to be pushed out.
To us, the value of a work lies in its newness: the invention of new forms, or a novel combination of old forms, the discovery of unknown worlds or the exploration of unfamiliar areas in worlds already discovered - revelations, surprises.
Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold.
I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.
I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.
It's hard to really compare new love and old love.
I kind of wish I would have been able to see the old Yankee Stadium after seeing the new one.
I watch old school film so that I can learn so much that I just sort of miss all the new stuff.
I try not to look at my old stuff or my new stuff, really. I'm not a fan.
If there really is no new way to be found, we are not afraid to stick with the old one that we found previously. So, I do not make every building different.
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
The newest books are those that never grow old.
The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.
When I was nineteen years old, I was the number-one star for two years. When I was forty, nobody wanted me. I couldn't get a job.
I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.
I think the original Matrix was really incredible. It was so original and it did so many innovative things with film. It was a much bigger film. Bound was just a smaller film. It was kind of like an old noir film.
Also in Norah Jones, now there's a voice that sounds and I don't mean disrespect but sounds a hundred years old that sounds incredibly experienced. It's just an exciting time.
Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.
My first walk illegally at 20 years old was between the towers of Notre Dame.
My mom started working at the California Shakespeare Theater in Oakland when I was two years old, so I've always grown up around theater.
