My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
Hearing loss very often is such a gradual phenomenon that the person is in denial. You really have to be patient with them in getting them to come forward to get help.
Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
If you ask me, I have not really seen any negative side of this industry. I have not met those kinds of people who can change the way I see this industry and make me feel that it's a bad or a dark place.
Seventy percent store-bought, ready-made plus 30 percent fresh allows you to take 100 percent of the credit.
Holidays in general breed unrealistic expectations. The minute you start wondering, 'is it going to be wonderful enough?,' it never will be.
Even if you play perfectly, a fault of your opponent's can destroy the entire beauty of the game.
Exercise is about being grateful for the body you have and sustaining the life you have.
Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.
I was scared, because I knew that in the political arena, you have to satisfy so many different types of people at once, and I wasn't sure that I could speak for everybody and be politically correct.
Once you decide to work for yourself, you never go back to work for somebody else.
The real challenge for a vegan is getting vitamin B and omega-3s, but you can get those in a vegetarian supplement.
Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.
I think that the most difficult thing is allowing yourself to be loved, so receiving the love and feeling like you deserve it is a pretty big struggle. I suppose that's what I've learnt recently, to allow myself to be loved.
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
I will say that Edward Norton, who plays the scout master, would be a first-rate Eagle Scout. He's got all those techniques. If your plane crashes into the jungle somewhere, he would be the guy you would want to have with you.
One of things so bad about depression and bipolar disorder is that if you don't have prior awareness, you don't have any idea what hit you.
My effort is to slip into any role that is offered to me. The minute you go into those costumes, those grand sets, and start prepping up for the role, you become the part or at least start feeling the part.
I have that love for music, when you are finding either old gems that you never heard or newer stuff that perks your ear. It keeps you trying to look for new stuff to write about it. You don't spin your wheels. I take that same approach to music and books.
However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.
We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through.
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.
Just because you are successful in one area does not necessarily mean you're going to be successful in another.
Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.
It seems to me like the Internet allows you to break that structure a little bit. You know, here's your CD that's going into stores, here's your EP that you offer online, here's a subscription for songs you recorded on the road, here's your live stuff streaming.
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
The Louvre is a morgue; you go there to identify your friends.
You cannot do only one thing.
I wish you would read a little poetry sometimes. Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
My agent knows what I'm looking for. And I'm also looking for a new agent, too, so I'm putting it out there. Again, I'm not going to turn down every role, because there is no bad role, really. It's all what you bring to the role, but that traditional, 'Stand here and open a rope,' I'm not doing it.
It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.
It is a dark, dark world. If you're going to be in a dark world, I can't think of any better one to be in. I still think I'm very lucky to be in it.
