If you're going to spend seven months of your life - for me seven months, for Roland Emmerich, 3, 4, 5 years of his life - doing something, I think you have to have something to say.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you spend seven years of your life working on something that you're really passionate about, and other people end up loving it, too, that just makes all of the work worthwhile.
'7 Years' is, you could say, a song that eats its own children. That we need to get past the song and get to the person and get to the record and get to the music so we can keep releasing.
Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years at least.
I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
'7 Years' seems to have attracted a lot of age groups - people seem to see their own lives in the song, and it's great to see so many people reacting in that way to it.
I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.
I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'
While writing, I'm always so happy in the middle of a book or finishing a book and really hate starting them, so I often think, 'I wish I had a really big book to write to which I could devote seven years of my life.'
The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.