My work reflects a relationship to the built world that shifts between control and randomness, strangeness and beauty, comfort and fear.
Instruments sound interesting, not because of their sound, but because of the relationship a player has with them. Instrumentalists build a rapport with their instruments, which is what you like and respond to.
I am a huge Prince fan. It's a very rare thing for him to have people open for him. It's been the Time and Sheila E., and that's about it. Building a relationship with him has been like a dream come true. I've been looking for a mentor, and I feel like I have that in him.
I don't want doctors and patients to be having to - having to literally ration care, take away that relationship by having the government come in and interfere.
I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'
If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.
My parents' example of a loving, caring relationship, I think, has affected my songwriting a ton and allowed me to start writing love songs that people could connect to without sounding like you're being cheesy, because they're coming from a real place, something that I saw coming up. I think they're a huge influence on my songwriting.
I had a career and I came to motherhood late and am not married and have never had such a trusting relationship with a man - and trust is where the real power of love comes from.
Distance is a bad excuse for not having a good relationship with somebody. It's the determination to keep it going or let it fall by the wayside; that's the real reason that the relationships continue.
People that I care about, that I consider being friends of mine, most of the things I discuss with them I wouldn't discuss in public because it's a real relationship. It's not a relationship for the public, you know?
I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
Well I don't know because I don't have a real relationship with the industry.
I'm a real relationship person - contrary to public perception. I'm either in one or I'm not.
I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
Nature is a dream state at this point, that we almost don't have a real relationship to it unless it's people living off the land and killing our own food and going for it.
People - not just in their teenage years - hold on to this fantasy of love when they're not ready to have a real relationship.
My father and I never really achieved a real relationship. We probably saw each other 20 or 25 times in our lifetime.
