I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.
I'm lucky to have had a father [John Lennon] who paid attention.
I don't really believe in political art. I feel in my heart the purpose of art transcends cultural and class and politics. I think something like the Sistine Chapel is something that goes beyond just being a Christian thing. It transcends its Christianity and becomes sort of a universal beauty. And I think that's true of music and art and literature.
Now, music almost feels naked in my mind.
If you give people more perspective of one object, they start to see it more clearly.
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
I wouldn't even say "Imagine" is political. I think it's…more just sort of declaration of humanity. I don't find his political songs to be the ones that I go home and listen to. And I would say that of any artist. They're not the ones that interest…
What I hate is when you're wearing something and you feel it on your body. I hate that.
I'm trying to use the language of today to express a general existential crisis that I think the world and I are going through.
I've always been cool, basically. I was cool in utero.
I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
I don't like when people dress intentionally ugly. Personally that's not my thing.
The idea of using media for expressing yourself artistically is kind of something I learned from my mother and my father. So for me, I think growing up wanting to be an artist, I always imagined myself sort of crossing over or mixing media and so it was a natural evolution for me to try to express in a filmic way or in a visual way. It just kind of seems like a natural sort of progression for me in terms of what I'm trying to do as an artist.
The one thing I do find about serious reviews is that usually they tend to have a point, and that's what I find hurt so much about discerning critics. If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
I actually think in music, learning technical stuff doesn't matter. You can be as technical as you like, but still sound awful.
I like songs that have lots of different parts in them, an intro, an outro and a bridge.
I was always nervous to play my father's [John Lennon's] songs.
I feel like I've been way overexposed in the press. I'd rather play shows and represent myself in person.
Growing up, I fantasized about being a rock musician and that somehow it would be really easy. I didn't realize that it's so much work.
It would be nice if I was remembered at all. I don't really care about being remembered. I just want to enjoy my life today and do my best while I'm here. I'm not that ambitious, other than to have a good life now.
It's a bit embarrassing watching myself, but I couldn't get someone else to play me, that would've been stupid.
I'm always surprised that people make such a fuss about Italian tailoring and French design houses. I think traditional British tailoring for men is so good. Everything's the right cut, the fabrics are good.
The most important thing in art is taste.
If the reviews hurt they're probably right on some level.
