I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And unfortunately, there was a price paid in terms of suffering and pain for people in New Orleans.
You have to think big to be big.
What you've done is done. You've got a goal you never reach, and it's always farther away. It keeps you walking. I don't want to sit down.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
If people really saw what was happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, then they might be marching in the streets to end wars. But you know, I think that no one ever sees because we're not allowed to see, and we're not allowed to publish what we do see. So it's quite difficult.
If the public likes you, you're good.
If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
Did you really think I would sell you out?
You grow older, you evolve.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
I had the misfortune of getting what skateboarders call hippers. It's when you fall on your hip again and again and again, just the same spot. It turns into like a blue purple bruise and it's just torture because I had to keep on doing the same move, going around in the pool again.
My mother always told me, 'Don't get married. Make your own life. You don't need a man.'
Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.
Well, in order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times.
People like to think of you as a certain person, or a certain type of person, and they do love to give you a label. We like luggage labels, and we like people labels.
Let's be clear: no one is forced into hazing. If you don't want to be hazed, don't join a fraternity.
Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.
To me, a lot of what makes a good actor is not what a teacher tells you to do but how you respond when you're on your own.
There's a difference between being a poseur and being someone who's so emotionally challenged they're kind of just doing their best to show you what they've got.
It's good to know how to read, but it's dangerous to know how to read and not how to interpret what you're reading.
I believe in not over thinking things too much. When the right thing comes along, you really don't have a choice.
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.
The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact.
If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.
The language that we use now impacts on the ability to vote, it impacts on the marketplace; instead of making things clear, it makes it more confusing. I think we need to stop using neutral language and speak in straighter terms. So when you agree to something, you actually get what you agreed to in the first place.
People don't realize you're blowing over changes, time changes, harmony, different keys. I mark a point in my solo where it's got to peak at point D I go to A, B, C D then I'm home.
I think people stop themselves from doing the things they want to do. I just think you never know how long you're going to be around so you might as well do the things that are intriguing. Nobody really cares anyway so you have to do what makes you happy.
There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have a job to do, so you do that job of singing that song or telling that story because that's what you're doing.
It's all about whatever enriches you. If you decide to go the domestic route and get married and all those things, it makes you a better actor.
When you're the presidential nominee you get to pick whomever you choose to be on the ticket, and that person gets to say yes or no because, obviously, it's a very important decision.
One thing I have noticed is that when you're a younger editor, you're more intense about it. As you go along, you relax a little. More and more, I feel that the book is the author's. You give the author your thoughts, and it's up to him or her to decide what to do.
Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.
They don't like thinking in medical school. They memorize - that's all they want you to do. You must not think.
Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.
It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.
There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.
