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I'm happy that grime remains underground. A lot of people talk like it's some underrated or ignored genre, but to me, that's the beauty of it. ”
Just about every town in Texas has a beauty pageant. Ours was called The Dogwood Fiesta. I was in one of those. I played the guitar and sang - and lost. ”
My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. ”
I suppose I was interested in creating a vision; in the same way, I was very drawn to tension within cinema. Hitchcock was my other early obsession - 'Psycho' and its score. So there was the sense of trying to create an atmosphere: how a sound resonates and makes an effect. ”
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ”
Adding comedy into what I do is just my natural approach. It's how I approach anything that I find tricky or daunting, because it's like putting syrup in your medicine, and it just makes it easier to go down. ”
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ”
If I won gold in 2016, I think it would change my life. ”
Nature is not evil. The world occasionally shrugs its shoulders, and people get knocked off. The earth, for geological reasons that are well known, is a fairly risky place to live. To be evil, you have to have intent. Any remarkable natural happening in which no human will is employed cannot be regarded as evil. ”
I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society. ”