'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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
It's the most extraordinary and saddest thing, the amount of talent out there not being seen.
Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.
In 2NE1, you mostly see just one side of CL.
We didn't sell a lot of records, but somehow we left an impression.
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.
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 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.
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.
There's nothing worse than making a good movie that doesn't get seen.
I hated the thought of being just a songwriter.
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.
Every performer has a little gem, a little pearl they have done that nobody pays much attention to. And then one day, somebody does recognize it, which is so gratifying.
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.
