Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
I don't want to sound trite, but 'Star Wars' really, really impacted me.
I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-songwriter. In my book that means I get to do whatever I want.
Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.
Seeing a new play in a first-time production is so exciting - when it's good, you want to shout from the rooftops.
I am happy at Leeds and I want to stay. There has been talk that Leeds might sell some players, but all the players believe we can win some silverware next season and it is important that we are all kept together.
Working hard as an actor means you're doing what you want to do.
I know exactly what I want to buy and I spend very little time, maybe 15 hours a year, buying stuff. I'll go in and out of Dunhill in 45 minutes and pick out a few suits. Boom. And I'm gone. I get my shirts at Charvet. I go in there - woosh - and buy 12 shirts and some ties; once a year and that's it.
It feels like I'm starting to come into my own in terms of where I want to go artistically, toward more complicated, interesting characters.
I do a lotta trash talking to keep me motivated, to keep me to not want to lose.
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them.
After 'The Hobbit,' I have no idea if things will change. I suspect if I still want to act I will have to put in the hard yards, not rest on my laurels. A lot of it is right place, right time, but I enjoy the challenge, constantly refining my craft, not taking it too seriously but never taking it for granted.
You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.
I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.
I've always been a strong believer that you were born with the hair you've got, but have the ability to get the hair you want.
If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
Because of this high status of the object in our culture, something has to be a thing. Live efforts are almost marginal. I think dance, for example, is just as much a thing, and I want for it to have the same status. I don't want it to be the thing that comes in the evening and is, like, the happy music.
Sometimes I think that I want to do something strictly basic, really simple. Just with a few chords. But I won't have anything more than two or three sentences in my head. That kind of evaporates once I start playing and then it goes off in whatever direction.
We want to just make music that impacts people - we don't really care about the rest.
I owe the public a good performance, the best I can give. We really bust our chops on 'CHiPs' but when I go home and get a weekend off, I want to spend it quietly, with my lady.
I don't want anyone seeing me naked.
I definitely managed to do different kinds of things. My focus is usually who the director is, because at the end of the day the director is the storyteller, what the movie is all about. I don't want to participate in something that I don't think is constructive storytelling.
With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.
If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.
I'm what you call a satisfied single. I don't want to give any trip reports when I come home.
Be very strong... be very methodical in your life if you want to be a champion.
Which implies that the real issue in art is the audience's response. Now I claim that when I make things, I don't care about the audience's response, I'm making them for myself. But I'm making them for myself as audience, because I want to wake myself up.
We're all going to die. While I'm still here, I want to make a difference.
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.
I want to be a young mum and if I didn't have to work I'd have them tomorrow. I'd like three!
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Who wants to see the same play again? I certainly don't want to write the same play again and again.
I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.
If I'm scared and I'm a coward, why do you guys want to see me fight?
I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
