And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

I've long been an admirer of Philip French's way of writing as well as his knowledge of films. He was one of the few critics to be aware, and make audiences aware, of the work of people on a film set other than the director.

I directed my first music video for Sara Bareilles. I like writing and directing. I co-wrote '21 Jump Street' and I'm in that. To me, they all inform the other one. I think writing makes you a better actor, acting makes you a better writer, directing makes you better at both. To me, I'm just trying to learn as much as possible.