Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds.
Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change.
You just don't luck into things as much as you'd like to think you do. You build step by step, whether it's friendships or opportunities.
No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
Everything's got space between it, the planets, trees, your eyes. Your eyes get too close together, it's a whole different world. You can lose perspective.
You have this disturbing reality that there are a lot of people who would rather say, 'I'm on strike' than 'I'm unemployed.' And those are the people who vote for strikes.
There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who are there every week.
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.
Most of the people who are given these Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame things sell millions of records, so it's kind of like a trophy for them. But for the Ramones, it really was a symbolic gesture of, 'Yes, you guys are special and are important to rock n' roll.' So in that sense, the Roll Hall of Fame served its purpose.
I mean, when I started out I was billing per hour, like a shrink because you would sit with somebody and work. But most of it, if it's for a live show it's usually a buy-out. A flat fee.
It's funny when someone says to you 'you're hot' and all that, because I don't think of it in that way.
Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.
When you direct your first film, you always start by telling stories that you are familiar with.
If you splurge, do it on an item that's fun, because you'll feel good whenever you put it on.
Well, acting was just in me and I tried to avoid it. I didn't want to do what my parents did, you know?
Let me tell you who we conservatives are: we love people. When we look out over the United States of America, when we are anywhere, when we see a group of people, such as this or anywhere, we see Americans. We see human beings. We don't see groups. We don't see victims.
I haven't given up on working... across the aisle on issues and maybe it'll take an election or two for that to fully ferment, maybe it you know sometimes it takes awhile for people to realize what the best path is.
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.
I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.
You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
I do think that with any kind of infidelity, on some level - unless you're dealing with a sociopath - there's always a reason.
Every time you start a company - and I've started five or six - you have the opportunity to screw up in whole new ways.
I'm passionate about the game. Anytime you work as hard and a play doesn't go the way you wanted, you get frustrated.
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.
If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
You know the great irony is that people think you have to have money to enjoy fine food, which is a shame.
What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.
Were I as base as is the lowly plain, And you, my Love, as high as heaven above, Yet should the thoughts of me, your humble swain,.
If you cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
There are times when you feel like you give a great effort, you have prepared properly, and you got less than what you wanted. So on the one hand, you should feel really good about that and just let the results be what they are. On the other hand, you can't be happy with it when you finished 19th.
You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
