Every failure is just another step closer to a win. Never stop trying.
I wouldn't really say I'm a jazz guy, which I'm not.
Nobody steals from Creed Bratton and gets away with it. The last person to do this disappeared. His name? Creed Bratton.
I’ve been involved in a number of cults both as a leader and a follower. You have more fun as a follower but you make more money as a leader.
No matter how you get here or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.
The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.
I write songs for myself, songs come out of me, I get enjoyment out of it. Basically, that's it - I get enjoyment out of my songs, I know they're good songs, and know that the people around me who I respect are all getting up on these tunes, and the feedback is really good, so that's it. There are people who will receive them, and don't receive them. Not in a spiritual sense, but in a commercial sense - do these songs treat people, and so far they're working.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike. It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
Every subject at some phase of its development should possess, what is for the individual concerned with it, an aesthetic quality.
The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.
As an actor, if you step to the side and you look at [Thornton's performance] technically, and you try to imagine doing what he was doing, most people would panic. Most people would be on the set, and they would be panicking, going, "I'm not doing anything!" All the ham instincts in you would be screaming, "You've got to indicate something here. " And it's beautiful, in a way. And so I appreciate, even as an audience member, the courage that it takes to be. . . frankly, to be subtle.