Michael McKean Quotes
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I'm kind of the town pump. I think I have a pretty good ear for what sounds good in this style.
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I think a band that doesn't have a sense of humor can come up with their own take on whimsy.Kind of lead-footed and ham-handed, but I think just all the better for that.
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As an actor, you have to be able to take all sides as well. You have to at least be able to understand things. No bad guy looks in the mirror every morning and says, boy, I'm gonna be a real bad guy this morning. He goes after his own what he's after, just like us good guys. You kind of have to take a stand and, a lot of times, you have to take the writer's stand or the stand of the character this writer has created.
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Some people stay in the academic world just to avoid becoming self-aware. You can quote me on that.
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Sometimes we drop in and do an acoustic set somewhere, and that's really fun to take all these insanely loud songs, and to do them quiet. It's really a sight to see... or to hear!
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That's a job that it makes a few friendships, but it probably breaks more.
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Jazz, isn't that just a series of mistakes diguised as musical composition?
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The process depends on the situation, and I don't think there are any two songs that have gone exactly the same way... well, actually, that's not true.
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Even when there are banalities, they're usually kind of benign banalities.
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Those people that you know for a long time and that you love, they're the easiest to talk to.
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I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.
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I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.
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When we can figure out a way to really tour and make a profit, then we'll do it again.
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I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.