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I'd sing all day, every day, all the time if I thought it didn't sound like dying cats. ”
As an author, I had spent years writing my stories on my own in a quiet room. My ideas traveled from my brain to my fingers, executed exactly as I saw fit, never veering from my own intent. TV simply doesn't work that way. ”
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that. ”
I don't have perfect pitch. My drums sound like a drummer, not a drum machine. ”
But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is. ”
Well I don't think I've scored my life exclusively to Ray Charles. ”
I have to be very careful about diet and exercise. ”
When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound. ”
I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. ”
Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important. ”