Pastoral Resources

I've been doing my big theater projects, which take years, and writing a song here and there.

I've written several deeply personal songs this year, which I really love. Some of them came out of intense sadness. This has been an extremely difficult year for me.

It's an interesting line that I walk. The AIDS crisis has done a lot for my songs and made them proliferate, and my songs have contributed a lot to that cause as well.

As a person, I'm not that hopeful, but somehow the hopeful part of me reveals itself through my songs.

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

I may not be the most famous songwriter in the world, but you know a David Friedman song when you hear it. It took me a long time to appreciate that.

I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally.

I was talking to my spiritual advisor. I got a letter from somebody who said that they were about to kill themselves, but they listened to a song of mine and it saved their lives.

These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

We went through this business of me writing out all the parts for these old songs from Gravity and Speechless and we'd been performing that, but we don't do that any more.

If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.

I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

Sinatra was pretty astute - he used the best songwriters around, he used all the resources, he covered every song from the era basically.

My son always says I like very weird music.

My daughter, Anna, is almost 15, and my son, Ben, is almost 10.

But I like to go to movies with my son because it's still fun; it reminds me of why I make movies.

My son loves the Hotel du Cap, in the south of France.