Robert Coppola Schwartzman Quotes

There's not much in the way of written-down arrangements - just things that Gerry and I have worked out, from playing spontaneously together and hanging on to whatever seems to fall in right.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

Musicians are always eclectic. Musicians are always curious and hungry for new things.

I love hip-hop and soul, but I desperately want to challenge it and see what I can bring to it.

Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

Goodness knows, I tried. But I think it's virtually impossible for the right kind of man to be married to a movie star.

Being in a band with my wife, I'm very aware of the multitude of ways that can go wrong. We're best friends and are interested in the same things, so it's natural to make music together.

Al Jolson was my first husband. He always used to boast that he was spoiling me for any man who might come after him. I think Al sensed that it wasn't easy for me being married to an American institution... Was he right about spoiling me? I'm sorry. I couldn't possibly say. I couldn't be that indiscreet.

My wife and I were in a band and worked together on and off since we were 19 or 20.

So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

In the studio, I'm always throwing people on different instruments.

It's always dope being able to perform with your girlfriend and get money with your girlfriend.

My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.

The goal of serious musicians is to play outside of yourself. That's most likely with people who suggest things that are outside your musical experience.

If you really want to stay married to the person you're currently married to, I would not suggest trying an open marriage.

I've dated a few musicians in my life, and it's kind of always been that way for me. You unite through creativity and share that process and more together.

Some people get divorced, they leave the person for a couple of years, then they remarry. Relationships are very, very strange.

I think people get freaked out about getting married and spending 20 or 30 years sleeping with the same person, but if that's the case, don't do it. Have someone for 5 years and another person for another 5 years.

Hollywood - that's a place where love is viewed both pragmatically and philosophically in the saying, 'Tis better to have loved and divorced than never to have had any publicity at all.

I loved everything about marriage. I loved having a companion to wake up with and have barbecues with. But things happen and people grow apart.

If people believe that they are marrying out of love and free choice rather than out of duty, they are more likely to decide, if love should die, that the free choice to join together is no more significant than the free choice to part, and to look for love elsewhere; those married out of duty expect less love to begin with, and what duty has brought together, duty may keep together.

You got married recently to a rapper. It doesn't take them long to impregnate women.

Zsa Zsa Gabor got married as a one-off, and it was so successful she turned it into a series.

After my last divorce, I said I was absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or something. Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish for, you know? I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in movies.

The loveliest Muse in the world does not feed her owner; these girls make fine mistresses but terrible wives