Don't try and save yourself. The self that is trying to be saved is not you.
I'm a shepherd, not a sheep, and I've always prided myself on being a leader and not a follower.
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Know your job and don't fake it. It looks easy, but the ones that make it look easy know what the hell they're doing. They may tell you around the dining room table that you're funny and you should be an actor, but until you challenge yourself by getting on a stage or in front of a camera, that's when your knowledge of the craft separates you from the pretenders.
You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music
Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do
I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
You can succeed only with God, never against him. You can succeed only with the whole, never against it.
The desire for narration keeps on reasserting itself, so that since modernism and fiction brought narration to an end, it is sought in memoirs.
People think a big camera and big lighting will make art, and I want to break that rule. If you have a great concept, it can be art.