I guess I don't take my stardom too seriously. I think I am one of the guys.
My dad was enlisted in the Navy; my mother was a nurse. It just was never a thought process. It was just go to the best school you can go to, do the best you possibly can do, and be the best person you can possibly be, and I think our faith had a lot to do with that.
Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch.
I imported the first Mac into England in 1984; you know, the beige box. I imported what I think were the first four that came into England. I never opened the instruction manual. That was the best thing about it.
Over the years, I've had about 80 stitches in my head and face from football incidents and bar incidents, so I have lots of scars. I don't think I look intimidating, but I'm sure other people have their opinions.
I don't think anyone's made a videogame yet that is me as the target audience.
I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.
Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.
You sometimes get the feeling that people think getting back together after a hiatus to write and record a record is work, you know, arduous and unpleasant. Being able to write and record - that's a privilege. I don't forget the long days I spent working in a restaurant, when I wanted to be done so I could go home and work on a song.
I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
I moved out at 18. I always studied classes and trained a lot, you know. I think nowadays is such a different time because there's so many channels promoting the celebrity aspect of things.
I think when you're dealing with any issues about trying to become a better human being, you have to look at a lot of things about yourself that maybe you don't want to or aren't able to.
I don't think that John Kerry is the Messiah or the Democratic Party is the answer, but I don't like the evangelical community blessing the Republican Party as some kind of God-ordained instrument for solving the world's problems.
I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write black characters, and they put them in situations that are ridiculous.
I'd like to think that even if I wasn't acting professionally, I would still be doing it for free. It helps me get through the day.
I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.
I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
I think it's too easy to recount your unhappy memories when you write about yourself. You bask in your own innocence. You revere your grief. You arrange your angers at their most becoming angles.
I think it's very easy for people to stereotype athletes, good and bad.
I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.
Unfortunately, the reporters ask the same questions over and over again. When reporters keep asking the same questions, they've got to recognize I may hear these questions 20 to 30 times in a matter of days. It gets to the point where I think, 'Read the other interviews!'
It is like a disease to think that an invincible status has been achieved after being satisfied with the past successful operations.
I think there is a case for strong action and intervention when there is criminality and when the leaders are corrupt or behaving in a criminal fashion.
I guess because I'm a liberal I think it's not people's natural instinct to be completely self-interested.
I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
The documentaries I made were never normal documentaries. They were about subjects I was obsessed with, and I suppose I thought I could sculpt them. What I think I do with my fiction is the same.
I don't think teams play this game to hurt other guys. I don't think that's the story. We don't play this game to hurt one another.
It's weird to think I have fans now, so I appreciate all of the people that follow and support me - and I love them to death. But yeah, when I start looking on Twitter, and I see, 'I want to name my kid after you,' I'm like, 'Whoa!' I'm a little surprised.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Jung Yong-hwa and I know so much about each other, I think it would be difficult for us to start a romantic relationship.
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
