The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
There's certain artists that are meant to have certain paths and go the way of the corporate world. And then there are artists who are artists.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
But part of the enjoyment I take in it is finding the most efficient way to do it, which doesn't mean the corrections aren't made. I like to have a feeling of the whole task before I start, even if it changes.
In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.
I was brought up correctly and in the right way, and my parents are very proud of the fact that I am a professional footballer.
Ma is my biggest critic. When she cleans my cupboard she keeps nagging me as to why I have 20 shoes or why my accessories don't match my dresses. I just keep hiding things from her. There are times when I wonder why she can't praise me like other mommies. But, in a way she is right and I like it when she corrects me.
You get weird, funny requests on Twitter. With our fan club, I was seeing a lot of fans were having some issue with the way the fan club tickets were being handled in one of the shows. So I was able to correspond with that fan, and be like, 'Listen, we'll be on it.'
You have to learn to fight for things, to bear the burden and have a life which does not in any way correspond to other peoples' lives.
I'm a big journaler, so for every new journal, I would change the way my room looked and change the posters on the walls, and I would change what I was wearing, and I would have a playlist, and it all kind of corresponded and matched, and I would change my handwriting in the journals.
Many authors hate to go on grinding book tours. But I've always found it a useful way to be a foreign correspondent in America and take the pulse of the country.
Crowdsourcing aid is a cunning way to work around the do-nothing corridors of official Washington. But it also raises complicated questions about the nature of humanitarianism and what it means for a 'nation' to help.
I don't really rate press conferences. It's not as though I leave the room fist-pumping my way down the corridor after a good one.
Unless those of us who love our wives (and thus, our lives) make a conscious change to the way we speak of them, unless we begin choosing to elevate and praise our spouses instead of denigrate, we will be letting an incredibly corrosive, self-perpetuating societal meme destroy the very institution that defines our lives.
I often ask myself, 'Why is it that most of the lies come out of Islamic countries, and why is it that most of the social corruptions are in the Middle East and in these Islamic countries?' The answer is, when you control something, when you suppress something, people try to do it another way.
I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
The goal of real healthcare reform must be high-quality, universal coverage in a cost-effective way.
Parks represent an efficient, cost-effective way to improve public health.
We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.
