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When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in songwriting, inspired by reading Charles Bukowski and connecting with unfancy, interesting language.


Dan Auerbach

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JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
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RICK RIORDAN My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ...
MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON And, he'd seen me in Panama, and he talked about maybe doing something in New York so I hooked i...
RUBEN BLADES I'd work with Charles Kelley anytime. I'd go do a 'Pancho and Lefty' record with Cha...
DARIUS RUCKER In five years' time I'd like to be a mum. I want to settle down and have a family, definitel...
ADELE About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS You see?" Damien leaned over his desk and spread out half a dozen charcoal sketches. "These are only...
RICK RIORDAN On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, ...
DIMEBAG DARRELL I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am...
CHARLI XCX I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about ...
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wou...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I think if I met Frank Auerbach or Jeff Koons, I'd be more wobbly than if I met Robert De Niro!
RUSSELL TOVEY I always found when I was reading an interview with an actor that I wasn't interested in their p...
ELIZABETH HURLEY Early in my songwriting career, when I was learning a lot about writing songs, I'd force myself ...
LUKE BRYAN Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I'm really happy with all the art that was inspired by religion, and I think I'd be tickled ...
PENN JILLETTE I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and ...
VIKAS SWARUP I'd been virtually doing nothing in the country in 16 years of being a retired lady. Being busy ...
CHRISTINE MCVIE I've been so lucky to do different things. The world in which 'Westworld' takes place is...
SIDSE BABETT KNUDSEN I don't think a powerful man would be interesting unless he'd be nice, attractive, with or w...
DOROTHY STRATTEN I'd love to work with Steve Martin. I'd love to work with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd.
CHRIS PRATT I wish I had more confidence. I think that's probably my Achilles' heel. If I had more, I pr...
BECK Alas, I think I am becoming a god.
TITUS Some men by ancestry are only the shadow of a mighty name.
LUCAN I have a wife, I have sons: all of them hostages given to fate.
LUCAN I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.
BJORK 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired...
CAITLIN ROSE I've always been interested in singing. My sister's a fantastic singer, and it's just so...
CHARLIE ROWE My parents went crazy when they found out that I had gotten the part in 'Conversations With My F...
DAVID KRUMHOLTZ I've been interested in writing and storytelling since I learned to read, but it wasn't unti...
JAY MCINERNEY I always loved putting on shows - when you're the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, ...
DAVID WENHAM I've been hugely inspired by the songwriting of Lauryn Hill and Tracy Chapman - on their albums,...
REBECCA FERGUSON I'd love to work with Lena Headey, Alfie Allen, Charles Dance. I'd love to work with Peter D...
GWENDOLINE CHRISTIE I focused on the saxophone ever since high school. It wasn't until my album 'Poetica,' w...
ANAT COHEN I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN I'd like to do more Shakespeare. I'd like to do Iago in Othello. I look so benign. It would ...
KYLE MACLACHLAN George Carlin's album, 'Class Clown,' came out when I was in high school. I memorized a ...
STEVEN WRIGHT When I work in English, I'd say I don't see a big difference in my rapport with my team or t...
DENIS VILLENEUVE Don't have to see," the pilot grunted. "Olga knows the way."
"Funny name for an aircraft...
GORDON KORMAN I'm very driven, and I always have been. So I'd like to release a successful album, continue...
GARETH GATES The saxophone is a very interesting machine, but I'm more interested in music.
STEVE LACY Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.
SENECA Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
SENECA We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
SENECA Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take...
SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.
SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation.
SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures.
SENECA I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.
TIGER WOODS When I was 8, I was reading 'Gone with the Wind' and 'Pride and Prejudice' and all t...
STEPHENIE MEYER I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'...
JHUMPA LAHIRI It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo an...
VALERIE SIMPSON I'd always been interested in psychology.
MORRIE SCHWARTZ When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attac...
ANTON CORBIJN I don't actually have a one wellspring of inspiration. Though I'm most often inspired while ...
JAMES ROLLINS People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I m...
JAMES MCBRIDE The first war movie I ever saw was 'Platoon,' and I was eight months pregnant. So my husband...
DAWN STEEL I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frigh...
DENZEL WASHINGTON It's phenomenally important to me that, if I'm going to be spending years on a project, I ne...
MARY MCDONNELL I'd like to do a Christmas album. I've never done a Christmas album.
TANYA TUCKER It's interesting, because I named my first album after my dad because I wanted to find him. My s...
M.I.A. When I was sent the script for 'Homeland,' I didn't think anything of it. Three months l...
DAVID HAREWOOD I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested i...
BUDDY HOLLY When I was 10, I asked my parents for a set of weights. I had my Charles Atlas book to go along with...
LEE HANEY My favorite Galaxie 500 album is the first one, 'Today,' recorded in three days at Noise New...
DEAN WAREHAM If I'd just been interested in record sales, I would have taken one of the deals I was offered a...
RICHARD FLEESHMAN I'd really been interested in opera when I was about 16, and I really like staging them.
BRUCE BERESFORD I rely on my iPad for on-the-go entertainment. I stock it with TV shows, like 'Parks and Recreat...
PHOEBE TONKIN In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how ba...
EMILY WATSON I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord p...
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JOHN VARVATOS I'm not interested in serial dating; I'd honestly rather be single.
TAMSIN EGERTON I'm interested in every aspect of fashion. I think it's in my bones. When I was younger I us...
GEORGIA MAY JAGGER I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.
NOEL GALLAGHER I don't have big anxieties. I wish I did. I'd be much more interesting.
ROY LICHTENSTEIN Records have never really been my strong suit. I've always been a much better live act. I didn&#...
JEWEL I'm inspired by playwrights, novelists, poets: The value of language has been a lifelong passion...
MOS DEF I keep my face covered during concerts. That's just something that is part of me, an artist, and...
ALAN WALKER I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm ...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've got...
RANDY JOHNSON I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a...
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EDDIE VAN HALEN I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be o...
MAYA ANGELOU I write books I'd enjoy reading, I'm the reader standing behind my shoulder.
SALMAN RUSHDIE I've gotten more flack from the remake nature of our 'Being Human' from American audienc...
SAMUEL WITWER I never read reviews - I never have. I've never read message boards, either. I'm just not in...
KATE LEVERING When I first heard 'Robocop' was going to be remade. I said, 'Yeah, that's interesti...
JOEL KINNAMAN I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.
BROOKE ELLIOTT I used to watch 'Grey's Anatomy' pretty religiously.
ERINN HAYES I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more intere...
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MIKE COLTER I've been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by ...
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BRUCE DICKINSON I have always identified with Joan Didion's depiction of Los Angeles and Southern California, ev...
HENRY ROLLINS If anyone asks me about songwriting, I guess I'd say that you just gotta do it.
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DAN GILROY I think there's a connection with 'Nightcrawler' and 'Blowup' and other films wh...
DAN GILROY Every film you're commissioned to write is all about an arc; usually, the arc is that the world ...
DAN GILROY 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses n...
DAN GILROY I had heard about the nightcrawling world, and I'm very aware that there are tens of millions of...
DAN GILROY I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the moun...
DAN GILROY When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using ...
DAN GILROY We rely on editors of blogs or websites and television stations to supply us these images, and the f...
DAN GILROY Shooting at night in Los Angeles is amazing. The city shuts down at 10 P.M. every night, and a whole...
DAN GILROY News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen,...
DAN GILROY I watch a lot of television, for better or worse, and I am particularly interested in what Michael M...
DAN GILROY I moved to L.A. and watched a lot of local television news, and I started to see the burn logos up o...
DAN GILROY All of us have a bit of a sociopath inside of us, and it's wrong to think that somebody is just ...
DAN GILROY A lot of times, L.A. is desaturated, and cement and freeways, and downtown.
DAN GILROY I spend most of my time in a room alone where eight hours go by, and I have no sense of time. I work...
DAN GILROY Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But...
DAN GILROY There are a lot of sociopaths running around who are probably our friends, if not us, and we don'...
DAN GILROY The friends we have, these are choices that - unlike family, which we have no choice in, and I love ...
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