The Birthday Party Quotes
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
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It is the haunted premises of longing that the true love song inhabits. It is a howl in the void, for love and for comfort and it lives on the lips of the child crying for his mother. It is the song of the lover in need of her loved one, the raving of the lunatic supplicant petitioning his God...The love song is the sound of our endeavors to become God-like, to rise up and above the earthbound and the mediocre.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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The way I take in the world is by seeing it; that is very much evident in the songs that I write.
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Hamlet got a gun now.
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Being a parent can make you a horrible person at times, because you're pushed to the limit constantly.
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The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.
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Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.
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After a while, you just don't do things you don't wanna do - that's the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won't be a waste of time.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.
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Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.
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I don't believe in an interventionist God...
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It's very important that the music has a sense of adventure to it, and that it's done by the seat of your pants. There's a kind of nervy element about it.
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It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.
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I'm a big fan of teatowels and am always on the lookout for a good one.
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I don't particularly believe all love is doomed. But I guess, one is usually kinda suffering from some aborted love affair or association, rather than being at the peak of one. I think it's fairly obvious that a lot more suffering goes on in the name of love than the little happiness you can squeeze out of it.
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There's always pain around. That's one thing you can guarantee in life - there will always be a surplus of pain.
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I have to be able to pull you in. How can I diversify my audiences? What role do I have to play to be part of that shift? I have to take that seriously.
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I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
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I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
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I love performing. I can get to be that person I always wanted to be - godlike.
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...be mindful of the prayers you send pray hard but pray with care for the tears you are crying now are just your answered prayers letters of light we scale merrily, move mysteriously around so that when you think you're climbing up, man, in fact you're climbing down...
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The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these came at a time when life was at its most destructive. I think you write about what you need, on some level.