Quotes About Entertainment

After 15 years of singing the same 12 to 15 songs every night, it can become monotonous.

What made me a comedian was that I wasn't really a songwriter, I was more of a poet.

Everybody in L.A. is a songwriter, producer, actor, creative. For some reason, you're supposed to go to a bar and all hang out and act like you like each other. There is a lot of fake stuff that goes on.

One of my first songs I ever got a decent cut on was with a songwriter out of Xenomania, called 'All Fired Up' for the Saturdays.

Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be.

I wanted to be part of pop culture, so I started songwriting, and I got signed to my first record deal.

I love watching movies, and I'm very inspired by movies when it comes to songwriting!

My process of songwriting comes from a very real place: a place that when you watch 'American Idol' - God bless it, it's probably an awesome experience that these people are having, but it's not a real one.

I've always wanted to sing and to be an entertainer. After high school, I moved from New Orleans to Los Angeles and started songwriting. But I didn't really get serious until then.

When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.

I like Sonic and all those types of games, and Sega Genesis.

We look at Sony as someone who's jumping into the space to help evangelize and build out VR. They're very centered around a console experience.

Sony is looking at 'Descender' as a franchise of films rather than just one movie.

Sony is the only studio without broadcast relationships with the NFL.

My first college internship was at Sony Pictures Entertainment in Los Angeles. My second internship was at McKinsey & Company as a consultant - that turned into my first job after graduation.

While you're improvising, you may come up with something which will break him up. As soon as that smile comes out, you know that, hey, we're having fun.

Soon, I will be 'King of all Hollywoodland.'

It would be fun to do a reunion show. I hope we do it some day, but it better be soon. We're all getting on.

I just feel that sooner or later, the sheer potential of the demographics of India, which is 1.25 billion people, will eventually be very attractive to the entertainment industry.

But, sooner or later I'd love to do a comedy. I mean I think that, you know, people don't think that that's in my wheelhouse because I've sort of played a lot of dramatic stuff and that's certainly a side of myself that I want at some point in the right context, in the right stuff, that I find really funny.

Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't.

We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.

I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.

I've seen every episode of 'Sopranos.'