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I don't find R.E.M. to be nihilistic. There is a constant undertone of joyous optimism. I'm not going to kill myself to Patti Smith or R.E.M.
[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen
When your back is against the wall, and you feel like you're losing faith and hope because so many things are coming at you at once, hold on.
When I first went on Britain's Got Talent I was famous for my cheap suit, my wonky teeth and the fact that I sold mobile phones for a living.
Sometimes, I see and hear stories, especially those that involve children, and I wonder if this is hell and we are trying to get into heaven.
I got ramblin', I got ramblin' on my mind. I got ramblin', I got ramblin' all on my mind. Hate to leave my baby, but you treats me so unkind.
Premiering a new opera is probably one of the hardest things in the world to do, and opening nights of any opera are always pretty stressful.
I just think, as a people in general, we should always look at ourselves as the underdog, so we should always go harder than the next person.
I'm very open about my shortcomings. It's nothing for me. People think I'm so brave for being like this. But I'm just being me, I'll take it.
We were iconoclastic. We weren't there to sort of follow the trends really. So it was important that we were making a statement against that.
I think we were all initially swept along with the Obama win, but he's proven to be simply a set of teeth, and useless in every other regard.
I think when you've lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you're sort of living the songs rather than performing them.
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning.
I feel like the one insight that's extremely comforting to me about the world is that we all share the same pool of emotion that we draw from.
The musicians that didn't know music could play the best blues. I know that I don't want no musicians who know all about music playin' for me.
I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
I have a handful of really close relationships in my life and I depend on those people heavily to carry me through and to help me stay steady.
So many nights I cried myself to sleep. Now that you love me, I love myself. I never thought I would say this. I never thought there'd be you.
I actually think the creative process is finite, and I'm wondering whether I've retched everything up. Because it's like vomiting or shitting.
People are going to a place like Pugwash and that whole area to escape from industry, to have the serenity of the surroundings and the beauty.
You know what I find truly amazing? I haven't had a hit record since the mid-'80s, and still people show up to pack up the places I'm playing.
I knew it was time to pack it in. I was in my 60s... I could still sing but I didn't want to get to that point where people feel sorry for me.
When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him.
All people may not always know those who are not actually good, but they sooner or later get to know all those who are always relatively good.
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
I like Xtreme Sour Strips. These really colorful little strips that are so good. I like snacking on them. They're not healthy for you, though!
There's always a time when you think you've done your last song or you've written your last rap or, you know, people are not checking for you.
In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
You can't staple me to the Brooklyn hipster. I don't buy skinny jeans and $50 T-shirts. I wear the same clothes I've always worn, from Target.
I started to put on weight when I was about four and a half and it got really bad when I was around nine. I ballooned. I was about 110 pounds.
A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.
Living your life the way you want to live it is the most important thing so if you have to pay small prices along the way, it's not important.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin is a place that I feel like it's undervalued. It's one of the most amazing cities I've been to. It has the most to offer.
If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that's not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.
It wasn't until The Sixth Sense that people started saying, wow, man, you're an actor. People didn't think of me as the guy in a band anymore.
The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.
I can see how you could get dragged into the bad stuff, but I've got good friends around me, good family. I think I've got my head screwed on.
I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.
If poems very different from my own bring pleasure to a group of readers, who am I to say that the poems should have been written differently?
I like poems that affect me emotionally and also provoke me to further, deeper thought. I enjoy challenge, but not, I think, for its own sake.
I did 100 concerts in 2010 and I had a bit of a burn out at the end of the year. I was absolutely exhausted and didn't want to do it any more.
I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
I didn't want to overdo things with fashion. I wanted to mix and match the basics and classics to make it, you know, effortlessly fashionable.
I am so disconnected from the world of rock 'n' roll. I was always peripheral, partly because of the drug culture. I was not involved in that.
We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next.
You want songs to sound cohesive with the other songs on the record but when you first start writing you just want to write to tell the truth.
Mexico is a very mom-centered culture. You'll find stores open on Father's Day, but never on Mother's Day. For us, mothers are very important.
I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.