I still have this unrealistic faith, that one day, my ship will come in. More people will discover, understand and buy my stuff.
There were no gifts. Everything is properly accounted for. I provided testimony and evidence to the committee. . . This was all stuff that was previously known.
First, there are some of my readers who only read Hap and Leonard, not the other stuff, and some who don't read Hap and Leonard, but a large percentage are crossover readers. And yes, I did refuse to go to Vietnam and it looked like prison was in my future, but they sent me to the psychiatrist and he gave me a 1-Y, which is unfit for military service essentially.
I hope a kid listens to my stuff, I hope there's a change made and at least somebody walks away with: "I'm doing this because I like it. " People are going to hate it and that's okay, but I have to do it because my happiness is important too, it's worth it.
You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison.
I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch.
We only labor to stuff the memory, and leave the conscience and the understanding unfurnished and void.
…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they’re saying is ‘you like stuff. ’ Which is just not a good insult at all. Like, ‘you are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
I love to see movies and just other embarrassing stuff.
I'm supporting anything that we can do to find out how this stuff is happening.
I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L. A.
You're always a bit blind. If you look at stuff a few years later, you get a more objective look at it.
Leaders do stuff that matters.
I do remember the moment when, as a child, I realized that the things we call 'TV shows' are really just the stuff that gets put between commercials. Later, I came to see that the kinds of things that get on 'free' TV are shows that help sell products.
Somebody that comes and dumps a brand-new album on me and doesn't play the old stuff, I'm pissed!
I do a lot of serious stuff, but I'm not a very serious guy.
You learn a lot about acting and being physical and being on stage, but there is technical stuff on camera that you can't learn until you do it.
When we first began and I was 14, my influences were the stuff that was in my parent's record collection like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!