I'm always trying to think of things we haven't done.
Right now, the Anglo people are desperately trying to hold on to the United States, like they tried to hold on to Africa.
I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.
I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.
I am not just a liberal movement. I come from the progressive Left. I am trying to refresh and counter the system.
I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing.
For years, even before 9/11, I've been trying to warn that the threat from amateur biolabs will ultimately turn out to be far more troublesome than leakage from military labs - perhaps even more costly and deadly than nuclear terrorism.
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
I have so much music inside me I'm just trying to stay afloat. I don't tend to write for a particular band - you have to just write the songs and then let God into the room and let the music tell you what to do.
Everybody was in struggle, in the grind trying to make it.
I'm already a tiny person, so now I'm trying to go to the gym to add muscle. I need it!
You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
I'm interested in trying to explore what I think is the truth at a given time in my life, and part of the process of being honest is - in my mind - talking about the idea that you're watching a movie. You're sitting here watching a movie. And I like that. It appeals to me intellectually, and also in a way I can't even explain.
I think the varied backgrounds in the beginning were a plus. It took a while for people to understand what they were trying to do and get started, but it did provide for a lot of new ideas.
I was trying to create products to complement the pop-up blocker. All these people were giving me their credit cards. I figured I could sell them something else.
Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.
No matter what the role, you're trying to do the impossible - make a living in show business.
You may be trying to drive in a particular direction that people don't necessarily understand at first. In our case, we knew the users we had in mind for this product. So in the early days, we looked at our customers, really just testers at that point, and we paid extra attention to the teams we knew should be using Slack successfully.
My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.
I just want to keep challenging myself and keep, like, trying new things.
One thing about Los Angeles is it feels like it's not new. It feels like it's already been built, and it's deteriorating, except for the places they're trying to make nicer. But in general, you drive all through the city, and the city feels like it was new a long time ago.
It is pretty ironic that the so-called 'least advanced' people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest and most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.
I write for myself; I'm trying to keep myself interested in the music. But at the same time, I want to make the songs relatable in a way; I want to keep melodies pretty simple and the lyrics open-ended so that people could maybe relate them to their own life in different ways. Something for everybody to have a piece of.
What's wrong with being elitist if you are trying to encourage people to join the elite rather than being exclusive?
I knew that my father was going to die of heart disease, and I was trying to make a heart for him.
I've only had success when I'm not trying to. It's that weird thing where if you're trying to impress a girl, you're not going to impress her. But if you aren't trying to impress a girl, you'll probably impress her because you're not trying.
I'm never tired of going to the studio. I enjoy recording and documenting everything and trying new things.
The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.
You know, I think I'm more of a micro-person, so to me, the context and the framework of trying to do what you love and feel passionate about, in supporting your family in that way, is the most important thing to me.
The biggest problem in my life is trying to be the kind of man that I want to be, the father that I want to be, and how to process the failure of my marriage.
I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.
We're all just playing our own game. I don't see it as a rivalry. We're just trying to play our best.
I'm trying to get low. People's personalities can get in the way of their own work.
We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.
We intellectualize it, and we rationalize it, but it's really about a love of movies, and I think whether you're making an art film or you're making a genre film, if you don't really love that movie you are trying to make, you'll be able to tell.
I'm on this search trying to figure out exactly who I am and what I have to say to people.
