There are some days when you don't feel like being Alan Cumming.
You may know God, but not comprehend Him.
Be virtuous in thought and in deed. God has planted in you, for a purpose, a divine urge which may be easily subverted to evil and destructive ends.
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.
When you walk into a doctor's office, you've got to have the same attitude you would about anything else. You've got to ask tough questions, and you've got to not be afraid to challenge their credentials.
I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
How far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without?
I see no reason to use offensive tools unless you're defending the country or in a state of war, or you want to achieve some really important thing for the good of the nation and others.
The first thing you do when you get off tour is let off some steam and, you know, have some type of big breakdown.
The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.
You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.
He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.
The only way to have time is to shut down and then do what you want to do.
Do not yield to misfortunes, but advance more boldly to meet them, as your fortune permits you.
What really interests me is how a woman who has had a bad experience with a man comes through it and gets a new life. I feel you have to be positive. You have to say, 'Look, okay, he's ditched you, but there's life after.'
When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
People have said to me 'I hope you won't let happen in Washington what is happening in Kansas.'
I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes - my kids, high school kids - get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.
We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.
It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.
You cannot get into business for the fashion of it.
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
On some levels, you can also have this feeling that we are being duped, somehow. And that the world is at play for something you would understand more if it were pure ideology. It is a very strange time and also basic things are being taken away.
You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.
Have you ever found any logical reason why mutual promises are sufficient consideration for one another (like the two lean horses of a Calcutta hack who can only just stand together)? I have not.
Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.
Debt is such a powerful tool, it is such a useful tool, it's much better than colonialism ever was because you can keep control without having an army, without having a whole administration.
I didn't start writing songs, honestly, until I started making my album. I was always doing poetry, but I never thought I could write songs. I discouraged myself and thought it was so hard. But starting this process and learning just what it is to be a songwriter and performer taught me that you don't have to feel discouraged about anything.
We want to shine a light on this great city of Baltimore. I can tell you, I love this city.
And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
I think I did every drug known to mankind, smoked crack, boozed, dropped acid, you name it.
I've realised now that the reality of children is you have to be in the right place with the right person.
