If you want to be happy, all you have to do is be happy.
Music's the one thing I try not to analyze. I don't want to destroy the magic that has always been there for me.
You only have 12 notes. Do what you want with them.
The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody. . . No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny. . . before the committee hearings even begin.
We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?
When you sing, you put on a persona. I hide behind that person on stage. You can feel like death, but you have to put it on. The audience wants to see someone smiley.
Deadly little Miho. She won't let you feel a thing unless she wants you to. She twists the blade. He feels it.
Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.
Everyone wants to be open and inclusive, but nobody wants to pay for it. It's the biggest roadblock to translating living writers, especially poets.
Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that I wouldn't otherwise see.
Life is full of opportunities to feel exactly the way you want to feel.
But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries. ’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next. ’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know. ’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to
I don't go to shows because I just want to listen to the music performed live. I want to get to know the person who's performing it. Or I want to, like, take away a sense that I had an experience that nobody else is going to have again, or a unique experience for that moment.
I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.
If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.
'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.
When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.