My music is like a diary. I use every experience.
My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.
I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?
One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.
I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.
When I started writing 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid,' I was trying to write the type of book you might enjoy, put back on your shelf, and rediscover a few years later. I hope that the book finds its way into the bathroom of every kid in America.
An album is like a book or a diary or a snapshot... It just feels so like the end of a chapter when you finish one.
The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.
My desperation for UKIP to do well meant that I really packed the diary and the day in a way that, frankly, wasn't very bright.
When I was making the early stuff, I never expected it to be so big. I was in my own kind of bubble. I never wanted to tour; I just wanted to create music and make a diary I could put out into the world. And sometimes, I became the characters.
I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.
In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'
I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.
Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.
Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
Upon reading the deeply serious opening of Scott Spencer's 'Endless Love', you will very likely laugh out loud. The tone is something like what you might find in a teenager's diary: verbose, feverish, furiously self-important.
One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.
When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.
You know, some of the good part of blog theory was that blogs would be like diaries that the world could read. They would be spontaneous, whatever pops into your mind, as a diary would be.
I had a diary full of lyrics and whatnot and a little voice recorder of guitar riffs.
The film of tomorrow appears to me as even more personal than an individual and autobiographical novel, like a confession, or a diary.
With CG, I can do more and be sillier. In 'Diary,' there's a scene where they hit a guy with acid, and the camera is never off him, and you see it gradually eat through his skull and get all the way through his brain. That's fun, too.
Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.
There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
The only really safe thing to do is to write a diary of where you've been, what time you went to bed, what you ate. If I wrote honestly about everything I think it'd be a disaster. It would cause a lot of trouble.
