I sequence during the entire recording process. The sequencing changes as I'm recording and as I'm listening. From when I'm, like, four songs in, I start trying to figure out which song should come after which. Which is important, and it changes as the album goes.
The minute I get a big head and start acting like the big man on campus, it's all downhill from there.
A rising tide lifts all boats, and you have to start with job creation. We will never get there until we replace all these jobs that have been lost.
Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.
Ever since I was a kid, this is all I've ever wanted to do. I used to pretend to be a WWE superstar.
Stars are almost always people that want to make up for their own weaknesses by being loved by the public and I'm no exception to that.
I always want to work on things that really scare me and interest me at the same time, and you know, I definitely had some projects in the past that did that, but the stars never aligned in getting them up. So 'Lion' was another project that really interested me, and the stars did align on this one. It just happened to be my first film!
We start a lot with melodies and instrumentation and trying to figure out good melodies for verses and choruses. We get to lyrics sometimes second, so we'll start humming a melody, finding something, and see where the music takes you as far as lyrics are and what you want to say and go from there.
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
My favorite Starbucks is nice - Omaha Starbucks stores tend to be friendlier than big-city ones, and the baristas are especially lovely at mine - but it's still a Starbucks.
I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorted out.