I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
People accuse me of being arrogant all the time. I'm not arrogant, I'm focused.
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
I hate how I've had the mantle set on my shoulders as being against the record label. We've had some issues, but that is the nature of business.
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate.
Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail.
I didn't have anything to do with being born to my mother and father. But I had a lot to do with Kristin Shepard's notoriety. I'm proud of the work I did on Dallas.
Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.
The Crosby family is sort of legendary for all of its traumas and familial problems, even though it has this appearance of being this perfect world. It had quite a dark side to it.
My father being in the movie business, I thought being an actor would be great. But when I started singing to people in coffeehouses, you know, singing folk music and then, later, singing songs that I started to write myself, I felt more than an affinity for it.
The Indian is a human being.
Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough.
I see technology as being an extension of the human body.
Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.
I'm just observing the world. I was born into it, like you were, and then I found out there were some really disturbing aspects to being alive, like the fact that you weren't going to be alive forever - that bothered me.