With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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Related If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep. DEYTH BANGER I like to have songs with me that have substance. That's missing from a lot of today's music... JENNIFER HUDSON I like to go out and see what a city's all about. ESTELLA WARREN When I'm out there on the mound, I'm fighting for my teammates, fighting for the ability to ... MATT HARVEY Sometimes I get off stage, and I almost have no recollection of what happened. It's almost like ... ANAT COHEN I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN My favorite scene in all of movies is Gregory Peck in 'To Kill A Mockingbird': You see him w... MARY-LOUISE PARKER Sometimes I forget that I am even watching myself, realizing that's me. It's like you almost... EVAN RACHEL WOOD There's probably a couple someones that are gonna hear the songs and go, 'I think that might... CHRIS YOUNG If you go to a movie and it's a great experience, the experience at the end of it is always like... CARLTON CUSE I think people need to understand that with plays and with cinema, when you hear about it, call and ... ALFRE WOODARD I don't consider roles like in 'Die Hard' what I do. This is like a hobby. It's fun.... BONNIE BEDELIA It's very easy to get excited about a job, but it's a big commitment because you do it and t... BRIDGET FONDA It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like,... VICTORIA LEGRAND Panamanian boxing is unique - it's very musical. It's almost like a dance. It has a lot to d... EDGAR RAMIREZ I have a very eclectic iPod. So I've got my cardio people - so it's anything from Beyonce to... MICHELLE OBAMA Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go ... NEIL YOUNG What I'm exploring right now is the subject of my own mortality. It's an area that I'm c... LEONARD NIMOY I start a lot of songs and throw them out because the energy is not right. It's almost like the ... GRIMES I was looking for a name with an old English sound, very easy to pronounce in every language and eas... DIEGO DELLA VALLE You can get too bogged down in technology and you can sort of forget what it is you were trying to d... CHRIS LOWE In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everyb... CATHERINE ZETA-JONES Every time I get a script it's a matter of trying to know what I could do with it. I see colors,... PAUL NEWMAN At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I re... MADISON MARLOW I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is ju... RICHARD AYOADE I love my work, apart from when it's driving me crazy. But I get to be interested in stuff and t... LUCY WALKER I don't like to see projects that are all black or all white. It's how life is. I do like to... VIVICA A. FOX Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the sam... TOM PETTY Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and... RANDEEP HOODA I see my studio like a laboratory, where I work like an investigator - it's almost forensic. I l... ROSS BLECKNER The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like 'Oh my God... BIANCA LAWSON I will tell you that I'm a bit of a snob. I love film, and I would like to work in film, and I... KELLY MASTERSON I went to see Harvey again in Fiddler. Harvey's throat is getting better. RIP TAYLOR It's something that I am going over in my head about the whole video game thing, and whether you... ROSAMUND PIKE I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to ... MAGDA APANOWICZ With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting some... AGNES OBEL The secrecy thing has gotten to be more and more prevalent in films, and maybe that's good. It... KAREN ALLEN When I'm working on a Slipknot song, it's like a switch flips in my head. I can go there eas... COREY TAYLOR I can't really explain what it's like to be in love, but I feel like it's being comforta... ASHTON IRWIN If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song get... DAVE MATTHEWS Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do ... FINN WITTROCK That's what is so great about being able to record a 13-song album. You can do a very eclectic g... REBA MCENTIRE I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ... SHARON OLDS Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian R... CASEY ABRAMS This is a career about images. It's celluloid; they last for ever. I'm a black woman from Am... ANGELA BASSETT Food brings back memories. I had a mom that wasn't a good cook, so I would eat my grandma's ... DEBI MAZAR When I like myself, which is not too often, but when I do like myself on film, it's when I point... DINAH MANOFF Everything I record, I just try to sound like me and come up with songs that suit what I do and then... B. B. KING It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER I'm not the type of guy to go so deep with the concept songs, but there's deep thought in ev... ACTION BRONSON What I'm doing is basically the same as Bob Dylan did with folk songs and Woody Guthrie songs, t... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I talk about race a lot. It's been my work ever since I came out of acting school. But it's ... ANNA DEAVERE SMITH But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you... BEN FOLDS When I see 'Sunshine,' I see a film that part of me is kind of very proud of and another par... ALEX GARLAND I love touring. I can't wait. Everything is just normal when you're finally on tour. I think... ALISON MOSSHART I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyon... BARRY MCGEE It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! ... WARWICK DAVIS The question I get more than any other is, 'What does it mean to direct an animated film?' A... LEE UNKRICH I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like ... OLGA FONDA I'll generally write out every scene that's in the film on a couple of pieces of paper, just... GUY PEARCE Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For m... JOHN CAMERON MITCHELL You see a gorgeous woman on your screens in a flak jacket, and it's almost like entertainment. ANNE SEBBA One of the things I don't like about film is its incredible immersive quality. It's kind of ... ALAN MOORE Certain songs like 'Enjoy the Silence' - to me, it always fits anywhere. There's somethi... DAVE GAHAN Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of t... MARTIN SCORSESE I have similar feelings, actually. The intimacy of a club: you can see the people, you can almost fe... BENNY GREEN There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm comp... CYNTHIA ERIVO For me, I can't watch violence when it's too grotesque, and it's just like, that's r... AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... NEIL GAIMAN As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I ... ZAK ORTH I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised ... DANNY ELFMAN Find what's hot, find what's just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. The... GORDON RAMSAY I always say to anybody who's going over to America for the first time, 'Whatever you do, go... DANNY BOYLE What's nice about 'Skinwalkers' is it's allowing an audience to see a different Indi... ADAM BEACH I can't say that I am a DVD junkie. I see most films that I want to see in the theater, and so m... RON HOWARD I really like Ariana Grande, Jessie J, and Nicki Minaj's song, the 'Bang Bang' song. It&... BECKY G I'm nosey, and I have a great imagination. So it's not necessarily things I have to go throu... BECKY G I think I've got to go back to 'Someone to Watch Over Me.' I think it's a perfectly ... ROB MCCLURE I have this theory. If you think about almost any given moment in life, there is a Beatles song that... PENELOPE WARD People go to see a film because it's a great story and it's visually exciting to watch. DOUGRAY SCOTT I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost. STEVEN WRIGHT It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, s... LIAM GALLAGHER I think my most famous was 'Poco's Legend.' It's a white album with a simple line dr... PHIL HARTMAN When I hear other artists talk, they talk about 'How come radio's not playing my song?' ... BLAKE SHELTON I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic... FIONN WHITEHEAD I'll read a recipe but then decide, 'Well, it's sort of like this, then.' Or I'l... TAMSIN GREIG Everyone is looking for connections between the songs. I don't usually approach a record as a co... TRACY CHAPMAN I think one of the saving illusions of the film business is everything seems like it's about to ... WHIT STILLMAN Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people ... AUBREY PLAZA I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still fu... CONSTANCE WU I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like the... COREY HAIM Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I... MAXWELL People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mi... SALLY PHILLIPS I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' ca... SARAH SNOOK You learn real early to make a film and then duck, and basically that's how I go about it. ALAN RUDOLPH Wearing this kind of costume is not something I fantasize about. It's not natural, it's not ... JOAN SEVERANCE If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there t... GEORGE STRAIT I really, really, really love my job, so it's not like I'm trying to quit wrestling to do mo... JOHN CENA Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person be... JOHN C. MAXWELL For us as writers, it's really important to have songs we believe in - even before sometimes we ... DENIS LEARY
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O'ROURKE The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim... P. J. O'ROURKE Northwest Ohio is flat. There isn't much up. The land is so flat that a child from Toledo is und... P. J. O'ROURKE The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb. P. J. O'ROURKE A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?' P. J. O'ROURKE Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the sche... P. J. O'ROURKE Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. P. J. O'ROURKE If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it w... P. J. O'ROURKE The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them... P. J. O'ROURKE Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching. P. J. O'ROURKE I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bl... P. J. O'ROURKE Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway inste... P. J. O'ROURKE Kids are disorganized. P. J. O'ROURKE People say free trade causes dislocation. In actual fact, it's the lowering of trade barriers th... P. J. O'ROURKE Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby. P. J. O'ROURKE Writing is turning one's worst moments into money. J P DONLEAVY Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out. P. J. O'ROURKE Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino's box. P. J. O'ROURKE In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a popu... P. J. O'ROURKE There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently ... P. J. O'ROURKE Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. I... P. J. O'ROURKE The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and ... P. J. O'ROURKE Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one ... P. J. O'ROURKE Israel is slightly smaller than New Jersey. Moses in effect led the tribes of Israel out of the Dist... P. J. O'ROURKE It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with... P. J. O'ROURKE I'm too tough and sensitive to have to have some pubescent twerp with his mom's earring in h... P. J. O'ROURKE Earnestness is stupidity sent to college. P. J. O'ROURKE Even very young children need to be informed about dying. Explain the concept of death very carefull... P. J. O'ROURKE I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a learning experience. Then again, I like to think ... P. J. 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