A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.
I think some fans want everything to stay they same because they want to stay the same.
When I was producing on my own, I was doing it in order to - in a very patriarchal entertainment industry, let alone planet - very much hell-bent on trying to prove to myself, if nothing else, that I could do it as a woman.
When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.
They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in.
The thing I always default to is that I'll always be here to write songs.
The person who knows HOW will always have a job. The person who knows WHY will always be his boss.
Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.
I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.
What I try to keep in mind is that there are going to be a lot of articles that are going to be misrepresentative of what I'm about as a person and as a writer.
I try to keep a low profile in general. Not with my art, but just as a person.