You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
Usually if you're the center of a show, part of your job is to host its energy.
Kids learn more from example than from anything you say; I'm convinced they learn very early not to hear anything you say, but to watch what you do.
I once was interviewed and got so exasperated that I said, 'What do you want, a shopping list?' They kept asking, 'What's in this picture?'
This is the way I look when I'm sober. That's enough to make a person drink, wouldn't you say?
Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
Whatever the reasons, would-be entrepreneurs should be forewarned. Going into business for yourself isn't just risky because your business might fail. It's risky because you might have a harder time getting a job in the future, even if you succeed with your company.
You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.
It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.
Meta-fiction doesn't depend on the illusion that you're reading about real people.
The Olympics show that your dream can come true if you work hard. It's not impossible.
You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.
If you grow up playing in church, it removes a lot of the boundaries that other musicians might have, growing up with sheet music or whatever.
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.
Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.
Very few people have the guts to come up to you and say, 'Hey, are you gay?'
Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
If you ever go to Temple Square in Salt Lake City, if you stay there long enough, you'll see a homeless person standing in the middle of their nice, beautiful square, holding out a cup for change. And the Mormons don't ever ask him to leave.
I do like my breasts. They're great, so much fun. You can do what you like with them.
If you think about it, everything we do in life is set to some kind of music.
I guess you deal with what you get.
In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
You would be surprised of films that people just don't see. You know what I mean? I'm always working and I'm a film buff but I'm an old school film buff.
Who on earth is going to use 'utilize' in a text message, a whopping seven characters including the always-hard-to-type 'z,' when you can say the exact same thing in three characters? I can't think of a sentence in which 'use' can't replace 'utilize.'
You make a movie for 9k for the freedom it allows you.
Most of life is routine - dull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you'll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness.
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
You know when you read that someone has to leave a show or a tour because they had 'nervous exhaustion'? Well, I had one of those and discovered that I was quite close to death. I always assumed that my lifestyle was going to take me at an early age, but when it was actually occurring I was, 'Not yet!' I pulled back.
You're not going to build private-sector jobs if you don't like business people.
Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs. And now in the serenity and quiet of this lovely place, touch the depths of truth, feel the hem of Heaven. You will go away with old, good friends. And don't forget when you leave why you came.
On record dates like that I never felt too nervous because everything was really overdubbed. When we did that album, we were in the studio for probably a week, so you had a lot of opportunity to fix things.
It's nice to feel like you have more in common with people rather than more differences.
You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.
