You don't say, I'm going to be a writer when I grow up - at least I didn't.
I connect emotionally to these songs. I mean what I say when I say it, and that allows your audience to connect. That's the number-one reason why any music is successful, because you make people feel something.
I view music as entertainment. When I'm on stage, I don't look at that as a platform for sharing ideology. Otherwise I'd be a zealot myself. That's why, when people ask me, 'Do you think you can change the world through your music?' I say, 'I doubt it.'
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.
My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
Anaheim is not like Los Angeles, where there are more people and more paparazzi. You don't have that in Anaheim. It's more laid-back.
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
It's weird... people say they're not like apes. Now how do you explain football then?
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
I'm an actor... I do a job and I go home. Why are you interested in me? You don't ask a truck driver about his job.
Sometimes you can fall into bad habits on film or rest on your laurels, and you can't do that in theater. I think it's such a useful tool as a person and as an actor to go back and forth between those two mediums.
Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.
I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, you're probably better off at boarding school.
You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.
What do I mean by concentration? I mean focusing totally on the business at hand and commanding your body to do exactly what you want it to do.
That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
I learnt a lot in government, and I've learnt a lot since leaving government. The kind of journey of being in government is that you start at your most popular and least capable, and you end at your most capable and least popular.
At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.
I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.
I was burned out, and my wife and I were having our first kid, so I wanted to take some time off. In this business, if you take too long, the landscape changes. So the opportunities that were there when I decided to take a break weren't there when I came back.
People are trying to act like they're balling all day with cars, their house, like there's no problems. I feel like a lot of people are trying to be someone they're not, and when you're just yourself, life is so much easier because you don't have to keep up this facade.
The only thing new is you finding out about something. Like nothing's really new, but you reinvent it for yourself and find your inner voice.
At the end of the day, you can't compete with Mother Nature. If you've got a great tomato, just a pinch of sea salt is all you need.
So I rang up British Telecom, I said 'I want to report a nuisance caller', he said 'Not you again'.
By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.
I don't expect the press to say thank you for the efforts that I make.
You cannot perform in a manner inconsistent with the way you see yourself.
You have to want to be Chicano to be Chicano.
The hedonistic lifestyle is difficult to achieve when you're still carrying your own gear. Trust me that you don't feel glamorous with a 60-pound amp in your arms; it's a lot less sexy than toting a vodka gimlet and impossible to do in heels.
I like the freedom of podcasting. With podcasting you can really mess around with the form and the format. You can do as much time as you like without having to pause for commercials.
I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.
With today's technology, you can actually see the baby grow, move, and hear their little heart beats.
