Top 15 Robert Coppola Schwartzman Quotes

Dreaming big is always a good way to go about things.

I’m definitely still putting effort into my lyrics, for them to be emotional and tell a story.

I never really considered myself an actor because I never pursued it.

I love all the movies by director John Hughes. I also love John Landis’s movies.

When you form a band, you form a real relationship that’s like a marriage. It’s an emotional connection, especially when you’re young… because you don’t know what’s out there.

I’m always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There’s so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

There are certain topics songwriters stay away from because it’s hard to go there. I didn’t sit down and go, ‘I want to write something about my dad now.’

I really like writing for specific projects. It’s a whole different way of writing when you have certain guidelines and a theme you’re writing to. It’s very inspiring.

I’ve always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I’ve always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I’ve always loved science fiction. I feel like space imagery has no boundaries.

I’ve always loved Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and I watched the Petty documentary ‘Running Down A Dream’. I was directly influenced, it made me want to go write.

I think, having done ‘The Princess Diaries,’ it was a fun experience, and it’s cool to have made fans that are now into all this music. That movie is still so relevant to our culture. It’s always on. It’s kind of a rare, nostalgic thing. I get tweets all the time about it.

Rooney was like marrying a high school sweetheart. And then you’re like, ‘I think we need some time to see other people,’ and those other people are new musicians. Starsystem is like a new marriage with new musicians.

I started using the Internet when I was 12 years old. I would go into chat rooms and flirt. It was the beginning of the Internet for young people.

I started Rooney in high school. These were guys I went to high school with and guys I knew from L.A.

That’s the thing about music: It’s forever. Hopefully, you captured a moment musically that has a timeless quality people will find relevant to their lives at any point. That’s the whole idea about what I love about art and music.