“I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.” Quote by Andrew Bird
“I can't relate to the process of just disappearing and writing a record, all at the same time, followed by the sort of drudgery of going out on tour and trying to recreate the record, playing the same 12 songs every night.” WritingTryingI CanNightSongProcessRecordsDisappearRelateEvery NightGoing OutDrudgery Author:Andrew Bird
“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.” LittlesI CanSongHoursMonthsCoupleSittingDesperateCompanionMelodyPullingFragmentsAirports Author:Andrew Bird
“There is someone for everyone, i'nt there. That's always my thing. And it's reassuring I think.” ThinkingReassuring Author:Karl Pilkington
“A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.” PerfectVisionCommittees Author:Karl Pilkington
“I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.” PeopleMeanArtSeemsLastsFilmHeroMirrorsVampireDon't TrustSuper HeroPopular Film Author:William Monahan
“I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.” NeedsOceanHomebodiesAtlantic Ocean Author:William Monahan
“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.” IfsThinkingWantWellsEndsStoriesSeemsSexViolenceTvsLike YouGrandmotherAfternoonOperaSoapCablesSoap OperasCinematographyYour Grandmother Author:William Monahan
“I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.” IfsThinkingBallsGamblingGambleSynthetic Author:William Monahan
“You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.” IfsKnowsBelieveLyingLiteratureI BelieveOriginalsI Believe InTalesOriginality Author:William Monahan
“You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.” PeopleIfsKnowsFirstsKindCreativeObviousCreative PeopleShooter Author:William Monahan