The President so far has struck me as a man who is trying hard to keep his balance. He certainly has been very receptive to all my efforts in these directions.
Trying to design the perfect plan is the perfect recipe for disappointment.
My poetry is me trying to reconcile my own life and opportunities I've had with opportunities my students aren't given and how profoundly unfair that is.
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
We started with Denny Cordell, and he was a great record producer. He knew exactly how to take a band that knew absolutely nothing, and guide you without trying to tell you what to do.
I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.
Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.
I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.
I'm constantly trying to redefine what being a beauty queen is.
I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
I've never regretted anything I've done, even the things that I've failed at. I've often regretted not trying something really big, because you'll never know.
I'm trying to be better for my son. And regretting every moment that I'm not spending with him.
I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.
I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm just writing songs that I like, and that's where I've always come from.
Gossip is a very dangerous tool. We should be more wary of the gossiper, and not the gossip they're trying to relay to you.
I'm trying to make God more relevant in our society.
Relieving the risk of a nuclear conflict with Iran diplomatically is superior than trying to do that militarily.
I'm not trying to be some kind of underground renegade.
Renunciation - that is the great fact we all, individuals and classes, have to learn. In trying to avoid it we bring misery to ourselves and others.
