There's a directness and a feistiness to being from Jersey.
Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
I think entrepreneurs really appreciate directness and honesty, coupled with empathy.
What appeals to me about 'Blind Willie' is just how sparse that music is. Just this idea - the grain of it, the rawness of it and the simplicity of it. The directness of the language.
Maybe I was just born in the wrong era, man. I'm a bit of a throwback to the days of black and white movies. Those guys back then, they had a certain kind of directness about them. A lot of the screenplays, the plots were very simplistic - they gave rise to a type of anti-hero that maybe I suit better.
The directness of my mother is clearly in my voice. Her opinion is always a very strong opinion at the dining room table. I think she empowered me to have the same drive.
The thing that I love about pop music is the simplicity and the directness of it.
