I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world.
Fine arts education in public schools is really abysmal. The same emphasis should be put on music, theater, dance - anything creative - that's put on math and science.
There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.
Well, the way things are going, aside from wheat and auto parts, America's biggest export is now the Oscar.
A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.
Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
I'm not curing cancer. I'm not saving lives. It's my job. I'm an actor. It's a good, fun job. People enjoy it, but there are many other people who are doing so many things that are more worthwhile. I just don't see anything that special about it. I see it as entertaining.
I see myself and my contemporaries being part of some good work in Bollywood.
I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.
Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.
One thing about the entertainment industry - it's not something that people need to survive.
I moved to London when I was 19 and went to a three-year drama-and-conservatory training. I lived there for almost ten years.
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
After making a lot more films, I realized that the movie and TV business is, for all its inefficiencies, one of the best-run big businesses we have.
I'd love to go off to college to study photography, art history, humanities.
It never dawned on me that I had the option of becoming a comedian. I come from a little dirt street town in northwest Texas, and they really don't talk about the arts there much on career day.
Listen, I'm not a politician. I'm not a news reporter. I make music, and I act.
Got two kids; one's a record producer who lives just up the road from me - great guitarist and piano player, too.
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.
Literature is painting, architecture, and music.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way.
I'm very blessed that I get to dabble in both music and movies, and as long as people are willing to accept me in both roles, I'll be there.
As I grew older, I actually was prepared to go into fine arts school and do a degree. That was what I was actually settled upon when I was offered a record deal.
My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
