Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band.
I was the classic middle child in some ways, the one who could have been a priest in an alternate universe.
To express to you in mere words, our personal feelings on this occasion you must know to be impossible, and particularly so for one who normally has to describe only things outside himself.
Dreiser... I love... and almost wouldn't speak to anyone who ever attacked him.
It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.
There is no such thing as Russian fascism. You won't find a single Russian who considers Russians to be a superior race and who advocate expulsion of aliens.
I had no desire to be famous; I just wanted to make the greatest music ever made. I didn't want anyone to know who I was.
I'm not sure if men really understand this, but I don't think there's a woman in America who really expects her life to be easy. In our own ways, we all know better!
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
My biggest challenge was to make sure that the songs I did were who I am.
The anvil of justice is planted firm, and fate who makes the sword does the forging in advance.
Dream on it. Let your mind take you to places you would like to go, and then think about it and plan it and celebrate the possibilities. And don't listen to anyone who doesn't know how to dream.
Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.
I would go from one city to the next, inspired by the monks in the Middle Ages, who would carry knowledge from one monastery to the next monastery.
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain.
There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
It's nice to have a catcher who knows my mechanics, too. That way if I get into trouble he can stop it before I get out of control.
I get a lot of calls from families and people who have served time and they say, 'Thank you, Sheriff. I hate the tents.' That's music to my ears.
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
Science is difficult and slow no matter who you are. The hours are long, and the glorious 'aha' days come only very infrequently. You have to keep believing that if you put in the hours, those days will indeed come!
People do stop me a lot, and what is really very rewarding is that the ages of the people who stop me vary so widely. Surprisingly, there are a lot of young people - even children.
It's intimidating when you have to stand onstage amongst a bunch of men who are dedicated to maintaining peak musculature and athleticism, and they're six-five, 240 pounds of twisted steel and sex appeal. It's a lot to stand up to... My goal is to not look like Chris Farley.
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.
A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
I think it's more interesting to see people who don't feel appropriately. I relate to that, because sometimes I don't feel anything at all for things I'm supposed to, and other times I feel too much. It's not always like it is in the movies.
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
What keeps me up at night is worrying about the moms who depend on ACA for all of the preventive care and not to mention prenatal care, the wellness visits, and the cost of delivery.
Who cares who comes out of the closet or not, so long as you're happy?
I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.
Some financial advisers say anyone who may move in less than seven years should not take out a reverse mortgage.
Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just clueless. Now that I'm a mom, I see what the fuss was all about!
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
A man who gets divorced is not forever going to be talked about for it. There are very different standards that we have for women than we have for men.
I'm one who will always speak my mind and say what I feel!
