I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.
Most good art is left wing. It's a moot point whether there is any good right-wing art.
there is no politically neutral art.
I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.
Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
My father thought photography was done by lowlifes.
There is a strange sort of reasoning in Hollywood that musicals are less worthy of Academy consideration than dramas. It's a form of snobbism, the same sort that perpetuates the idea that drama is more deserving of Awards than comedy.
In my vocabulary there are two bad words: art and good taste.
A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.
I try not to have favorites, but Barfly is one that I like. My favorite is always the one I just finished.
There is, in any art, a tendency to turn one's own preferences into a monomaniac theory.
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above all, I know that life for a photographer cannot be a matter of indifference. Opinion often consists of a kind of criticism. But criticism can come out of love.
There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
Trying to get somebody to read your script and you're a musician? That's the last person whose script you're gonna read!
Due to the political nature of film, partisan film making, especially where the subject is close to the film makers hart, tend to be the norm, rather than the exception.
Whether we like to admit it or not, as artists, we do project our own worldview on to what we do.
As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
[P]oetry resembles metaphysics: one does not mind one's own, but one does not like anyone else's.
A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.
Whether a watercolor is inferior to an oil [painting], or whether a drawing, an etching, or a photograph is not as important as either, is inconsequent. To have to despise something in order to respect something else is a sign of impotence.
REALISM, n. The art of depicting nature as it is seem by toads. The charm suffusing a landscape painted by a mole, or a story written by a measuring-worm.
Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.
I am an artist, and, through my eye, must confess to a tremendous bias. In my purely literary voyages my eye is always my compass.
I'm always weary of connotations. I don't want people to listen to the music I make presently because they liked my previous work, or to dismiss it because they didn't. I'm guilty of this as well - having preconceptions about other artists - but it's stupid because all music exists on its own and should be listened to with a clear head.
I remember mother saying : Inventors are like poets, a trashy lot
