I am suspicious of writers who go looking for issues to address. Writers are neither preachers nor journalists. Journalists know much more than most writers about what's going on in the world. And if you want to change things, you do journalism.
When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
You change things by focusing your energy on doing your job well.
It's crazy how much time can change things.
You have to change things in order to get to where you want to go. And things might get worse. But if you're not getting where you want to be, already, in a sense, it's as bad as it can get.
I had a big problem working with stars, because they are too expensive and have too many demands. Their names help you raise the money to make the movie, but then they demand close-ups. They change things. You end up doing things at their service instead of servicing the film.
We get so little news about the developing world that we often forget that there are literally millions of people out there struggling to change things to be fairer, freer, more democratic, less corrupt.
As someone who has been a Marine, how do you change things? You step up to the plate. And you are the one who says put me in.
In football, like in life, there are always millimetres which can change things - the course of a goal or of a life.
I won't look back and say 'I wish I could change things.'
