I've been in a hurry all my life. I've been in a hurry to succeed, and in a hurry to prove myself.
I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.
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've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.
I wasn't close to my father, but I wanted to be all my life. He had a funny sense of humor, and he laughed all the time - good and loud, like I do. He was a gay Irish gentleman and very good-looking. And he wanted to be close to me, too, but we never had much time together.
I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.
Even as a young boy, my passion was to design, and I have been very lucky to be able to do what I have loved all my life. There can be few greater gifts than that.
My songs form a kind of biography or diary of my life as they are about people I have loved and people I only knew in my heart, places I have seen only for a moment and places I have lived all my life.
I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy.
I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.
I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south of Bristol, and I was just amazed that a city like Edinburgh was actually in the British isles.
For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
On the other hand, if there's an underlying core of poetry that I go to, I go to the sea. I've lived on the sea all my life. I live on the sea in Cape Breton.
I was going to be living there and I didn't want to sound like a foreigner all my life.
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
I'd been eating fast food all my life without thinking about it. And the more I learned about the subject, the more intrigued I became.
I would never be able to spend all my life in a busy city like Mumbai.
All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.
I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.
There's been nothing but discipline, discipline, discipline all my life.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Out of my discomforts, which were small enough, grew one thing for which I have all my life been grateful, the formation of fixed habits of work.
I'm not one of those people who had a burning passion for 'Peter Pan' all my life. Although I can't remember a time when I didn't know the story, I didn't carry around with me an ambition to one day write the sequel.
All my life, I never realized you could have a conversation with a ghost.
All my life, men have told me I wasn't pretty enough - even the men I was dating. And I'd be like, 'Well, why are you with me, then?' It's always been men putting me down just like my dad. To this day when someone says I'm cute, I can't see it. I don't see it no matter what anybody says.
Just kidding, I've been very athletic all my life.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
I had been singing all my life, but I started acting in high school.
By and large, I've been healthy all my life.