Pastoral Resources

Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.

Idol has pretty much taken me out of my recording and out of my choreography. I have managed to slip in some choreography jobs. And I've been writing songs for other artists.

With Connery, he does act. He is in complete command. He completely trusts the person first, then the instrument. I've worked with his son also, on a picture in Russia.

If my life was a song it would be 'Who Let The Dogs Out'.

I love listening to Radio Head's 'Everything in its Right Place' because it's all major chords, it makes you feel really good. It's soothing, it's got a beautiful voice, crazy textures. When I'm down I listen to that song and it really makes me feel good.

My current companion, Gerard de Battista, is the father of my two sons.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

It's great to be able to get up there now and do an hour or 75 minutes of songs they're familiar with.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Well, I actually tell my son that I don't have any hair because he asked me the same question that I gave it to him when he was born, so he actually still believes that. He's five years old.

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

I have sons, and they have never said the word hell in front of me or my wife. That's the truth.

I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

Courage: Great Russian word, fit for the songs of our children's children, pure on their tongues, and free.