I don't like interior decorating. It looks gorgeous, but it doesn't have that lived-in look.
The room has to be comfortable; the house has to look habitable.
It's very homely, this castle. It doesn't have huge ballrooms. I didn't want a cold, cavernous place.
I just played at a club in L.A. called the Baked Potato. It fits like 90 people. It's like playing somewhere in a basement in, like, Indiana or somewhere where all your friends show up. It's really fun and there's a very different energy to that than to play to 50,000 at a Tokyo baseball stadium.
I lived at the Gramercy Park Hotel for about 10 years. It was terrific. It was a pleasantly run-down hotel of the '70s and '80s with a mix of older, rent-controlled apartment dwellers, Europeans and new wave and punk bands. The room service was great, the hamburger was terrific, and they had a doctor who made house calls.
I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.
The minute I get into a hotel room, I scatter my stuff everywhere. It's like a bomb site within a minute. So I suppose that means I'm trying to nest.
What makes a loft authentic isn't its layout or its history but its ability to give people a true home - a dwelling that reflects their personalities and aspirations, including their dreams of urbanity.
I absolutely love low-key restaurants.
I mean, even my dressing room at the studio has candles and cushions and cashmere rugs and things.
Despite loving England and loving English gardens, I'm not a chintz person, never was. It's too cute.
All rooms ought to look as if they were lived in, and to have so to say, a friendly welcome ready for the incomer.
A good home must be made, not bought. In the end, it's not track lighting or a sun room that brings light into a kitchen.
A well-designed home has to be very comfortable. I can't stand the aesthetes, the minimal thing. I can't live that way. My home has to be filled with stuff - mostly paintings, sculpture, my fish lamps, cardboard furniture, lots of books.
I can't make a house homely. My house just looks like a garage or a shed. I'm not untidy, but it just looks so uninviting.
There is a gentleness in Michigan that you just can't replicate.
Brunch is boring, but that's part of the charm of it.
The best thing about animated-feature people is that they are very laid-back people. You feel like you're showing up for a backyard barbecue.
I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.
I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.
