I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.
I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.
I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.
I spent my teens in northern California listening to KALX, KUSF, and KFJC, finding people that changed my life.
Place is so important to me. The Midwest is like a ghost in my life. It's present as I look out the window now. I see Texas, but if I close my eyes and look out the same window, I'm back in my hometown in Worthington, Minnesota, and I cherish those values and that diction.
Not every actor gives their life to do this job. Some just do it as a job. Well, it's my life.
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.
I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The three greatest people in my life were white, OK. My high school coach, my high school superintendent and my mentor in Manhasset, Long Island.
I know Chandler is similar to me. But if you watched my life for a week, there would be many more boring parts.
For better or worse, poetry is my life.
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative.
Music has completely taken over every aspect of my life and ruined everything.
You want to provide for your family, of course, but you also want them to come along on the journey with you. I haven't achieved all I want to with my life, so I need to continue to push myself.
I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I've never even been to the 'hood. Not that there's anything wrong with the 'hood.
I've never, ever, raised a fist to anybody in my life.
My main goal as a songwriter is to make something that inspires people. To write things about my life that people can relate to. Whether it's a whole record or just one song for someone, I hope it can do that for them. Knowing that I have the ability to do that is inspiring to me.
I've done jiujitsu a huge chunk of my life, and I try to spend a lot of time educating people on the nuances, the subtleness of the ground game. It's a big part of mixed martial arts.
I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
I've only skied a couple of times in my life. Any skier would say I stink.
My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.
If the Army helped towards my tuition fees I would then give them four years of my life.
Half my life is an act of revision.
I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.
I started reading DC stuff much later in my life. You realize that there's a huge difference between the Marvel universe and the DC universe and the characters that own it.
I've got my interests and my life experiences as I'm putting lyrics together. And if you start looking at patterns, you start thinking, 'Well, what am I really singing about here?' A lot of it seems to be a battle for some freedom against oppressive forces. That seems to be a theme in a lot of the albums I've done.
And when I go to see plays, I marvel at how people can do that. I've done it all my life, but I still find it mystical.
Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.
My life has been immensely enriched by gay mentors, colleagues and friends, and any discrimination and persecution of gay people is unacceptable.
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
