When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.
I am not interested in genres. I am interested in doing the best work I can in whatever medium.
Creative work is incredibly difficult, and that is where the tests lie.
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
I do most of my work with kids. They are the very foundation of our future. We are so incredibly disrespectful to them in America in every way because they can't vote.
I could play everything but could never take a lead. My brain just doesn't work like that.
To actually put the time and energy into an album that would be better than Pull would be a hell of a lot of work, because I took that band really seriously, way more seriously than people took us. If you go back and listen to the records, you can hear it.
I don't believe in careers. I believe in work. I'm not interested in some 'big picture that would be really good for me'.
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.
So, I certainly subscribe to what Bette said about acting being very hard work.
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.
There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.