Not that there is anything wrong with confessional songwriting, there are plenty of people that do that I admire. I think it is great; it just isn’t how I do things.
ZOOEY DESCHANELTrue love that lasts forever… yes, I do believe in it. My parents have been married for 40 years and my grandparents were married for 70 years. I come from a long line of true loves.
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I feel like making music because – and this has much to do with the way I was able to make this record – there’s more of myself in it.
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I can’t go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.
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I’m a romantic, but I’m not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me.
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The internet’s like one big bathroom wall with a lot of people who anonymously can say really mean things. It’s fine, I believe in freedom of speech and I think people should think what they want, but I don’t care to hear it.
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I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
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Love is individual to each person and I don’t think you can define it before experiencing it because it isn’t going to be the same for everybody.
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I’m a big fan of the ’80s fantasy genre that I grew up watching, movies like “Krull” and “Clash of the Titans” and “Time Bandits” and all that stuff.
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One of the things I love about doing things that are creative is that I feel like it’s my right as an artist not to be affected by the reactions of those people that are going to hear my songs.
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If I could give my teenaged self any advice, it would be ‘Calm down!’
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I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that’s amazing when people can do that, but I think there’s room for the tone singers. And there aren’t a lot of them.
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I was doing about five movies a year for many years. I was just so tired. I walked around feeling like a Mack truck hit me.
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We all know guys who’ve had their hearts broken in real life; we just don’t usually see it in the movies.
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I think making a movie or a record, the best things happen by accident – and those end up being the magic. Every time I’ve followed my gut it’s been better than when I’ve tried to do what I was supposed to do.
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I LOVE DOWNTOWN LA and I relish any opportunity to spend time there.
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For me, writing is 75 percent procrastinating and 25 percent actually sitting down and working.
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