To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song. I guess it was just because I was really into music as a child, and I wanted it to say more. It was the thing, wasn't it? And now it isn't.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
One of the most powerful devices of poetry is the use of distortions. You can go from talking about the way a minute passes to the way a century passes, or a lifetime.
Don't just expect the scouts to find you. Go to camps, clinics and make sure you are seen.
I believe that entrepreneurs play an unmatched role and the accelerating pace of innovation is transforming the face of global challenges. You must think about the solution differently when you're trying to impact 1 billion people rather than affecting 1 million people.
First, I have the privilege of being Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. It is not an oxymoron I assure you.
Being a director, whether you're in rehearsal or you're in auditions or you're in a creative meeting, is so much to me about being present in the moment. There's a sense of time stopping.
Age, they say, is only important if you're cheese. or a wine. They also say, if you are stuck behind one on a golf course, that a tree is 90 per cent air. How come, then, that you invariably send your ball crashing into the remaining 10 per cent?
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.
Just the fact that you get to live and breathe and interact with the world - that's pretty marvelous.
If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
The hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.
I think sometimes you just need to play in this league. As a rookie coming out of college, you don't understand the real significance of being a pro unless you're playing other pros. It doesn't help you to play sporadically here or there.
It's a real blessing for me to tell you, sir, that calvary has arrived - Fox is here!
The most important thing is to understand that this career is not about speed. It's about stamina. This is a marathon. It's not a 50-meter sprint. You have to persevere and understand it takes a lot of time. You have to know you're going to knock on 100 doors and 99 of them are going to close in your face.
To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.'
Dieting is murder on the road. Show me a man who travels and I'll show you one who eats.
If you put people in a corner, you see what their character really is.
Well, you give me too much credit for foresight and planning. I haven't got a clue what the hell I'm doing.
I've an idea for doing a Situation Comedy myself but its always difficult to get people to listen to you because they like to put their own ideas forward.
Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.
Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.
When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.
It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.
If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
If you meet me, you might not get to know me. If you hear my music? You'll get to know me.
You know, kicking people's butts with round-edged boots is good, but with pointy shoes, it's even better.
One of the first things I learned in the Marine Corps is that any military mission has to be defined as precisely as you can possibly define it, and then you size the force and equipment force to accomplish that mission without fail.
You don't have to have a great art idea - just get to work and something will happen. So that's pretty much my modus operandi and pretty much my principal position, such as it is.
One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?
If you tell people your ambitions, they usually laugh at you. When I told my girlfriends when I was 12 that I was going to Hollywood, they all laughed. And here I am!
It's a small world. No matter what the circumstances, be nice to everyone, as you never know who you're going to see again.
