I want to be Miss USA or Miss America. I would bring the trophy back to Nebraska. My interests are agriculture and corn. Hey, I'm just riding this train as long as I can. As long as I'm having fun, I'll do it. When it stops being fun, I'll try something else.
I had this feeling that, somehow, we ought to be teaching not just the history of particular nations or particular regions, but the history of humanity.
The Crafty Cockney had a picture of the owner dressed up as a copper, so I brought it home, wore it on TV and the name just stuck.
An awful lot of people have childhood memories of holidays in Cornwall, and the holidays are old-fashioned and hugely successful. You stick a child and a dog on one of the beaches, and they just light up; they just love it.
I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.
Nadine Gordimer came over just before she died. She didn't want to talk about books or the arts, but about the abuse of the constitution by the government.
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.
We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.
It's funny: I've always had the analogy of a snow globe, that Hollywood is a snow globe. No, it's true. If you shake it up, you can look at it and really enjoy it. But don't ever go in. Don't ever buy into it and be like, 'I deserve all of this!' because it can go away at any time, so just have a lot of fun.
Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it.
It just seems there's better things to do in your life than be on television if it's not interesting, if it's not challenging, if it's not fun. You know? When it stops being those things for me, I'll stop making television.
I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.
I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.
The guy that just arranges things so that the stock market holds up is nobody in my - in my estimation.
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
I found longer races boring. I found the mile just perfect.
Creating a safe space at our shows isn't encouraging anything. It's just saying thank you.
My family thought the fascination with acting was just another fad.
Courage is just fear, plus prayers, plus understanding.
I just want to make great music. There's not a genre that I would categorize it as, but I want it to be true and authentic.
I don't know what it is really... I think I'm just good with hooks.
I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
If we are going to conduct a population-centric strategy in Afghanistan, and we are perceived as backing thugs, then we are just undermining ourselves.
It always makes me sad when someone comments on how much they love my work- from 15 years ago! I don't want to be just another old school guy that fell off.
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
When they speak about 'We the people...,' we the people have to have a voice. It can't just be the establishment voice.
I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.
My parents got me in trouble when I was in school because someone was getting bullied, and I didn't do anything about it. I just watched it happen and then came to the school, and I got cussed out for not helping and not being a part of it.
You really couldn't do a PG version of 'Crossfire!' It just wouldn't work.
We were just emerging from the Depression. Superman started in 1938. Batman started in 1939. So, we were just recovering.
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent.
I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life. There were lots of kids from different races and poor families. People had to struggle to get through the day.
