'I'm Yours' was written effortlessly in about 20 minutes' time, and I honestly thought it was more of like a kids' song, and I didn't do anything with it for years.
An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
Why do I put myself in a position to be cast aside or not considered as I would like to? Because I am a creative mind, because I still aspire to be one.
An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.
It sounds so dramatic, but I'll say it: Hollywood just doesn't know what to do with me. And it's not for lack of trying.
The ridiculous events in everyday life are often overlooked - people don't recognise it as potentially cinematic.
It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving.
First of all, with due respect to my dad, he wasn't an ace composer. He never got the success that my uncle did.
It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.
Actually, my career as a music director turned out to be a disappointment. I believed I gave good songs but the response and recognition from the industry was not great.
I know it will be the thing that'll be my epitaph: They won't say anything about my movies, I'll be this guy in a rubber mask.
In 2NE1, you mostly see just one side of CL.
There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.
When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
After you finish a book, you know, you're dead. But no one knows you're dead. All they see is the irresponsibility that comes in after the terrible responsibility of writing.
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
My mother is a great artist, but she always treated her paintings like minor postcards. Had she pursued it, she would have been a great artist. Instead, she looked down on her art.
I just couldn't get anyone to sing my songs, so I had to sing my own tunes.
Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
Everybody told me to stay in Hollywood. This was the place they said I could have a big career. What they failed to mention was that no one would quite know what to do with me.
