You "have a date," you "go out with a date," you "groan because there isn't a decent date in town. " A situation defined as containing a girl - or boy - of the right social background, the right degree of popularity, a little higher than your own.
I don't want to be famous, or recognizable.
I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music.
When people say, "Show your face, you're not ugly. " I want to say, "I know. I'm not doing it because I think I'm ugly; I'm trying to have some control over my image. And I'm allowed to maintain some modicum of privacy. But also I'd like not to be picked apart or for people to observe when I put on ten pounds or I have a hair extension out of place. " Most people don't have to be under that pressure, and I'd like to be one of them. I don't go on Twitter. Because when people say things like, I don't know, "I hope you get cancer and die," it hurts my feelings.
I'm an advocate of 'it's not what you are, it's who you are. '
People aren't honest about the horrors of fame. The downsides are so overwhelming that, for me, there is no payoff.
Worst music ever sells millions. The worst music with the shittiest lyrics. The fact is that they pay radio stations to put it on the radio, then you've heard it a million times when you're driving from your shitty job to your shitty house. It's indoctrination, it's sad.
The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.
Any day, any minute we bless God for our being or for anything, for food, for sunlight, we do and are what we were meant for, madefor--things that give and mean to give God glory.
We can spend our whole lives escaping from the monsters of our minds. (36)
I'm going to make a film where not one word is really important. I'm going to make it all action.