I feel guilty about spending so much time away from home and loved ones.
I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.
We must not lose hope. Hope is an anchor to the souls of men. Satan would have us cast away that anchor.
When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
Americans are so spoiled. They think you always have to have a car, whereas I got away on my own two feet.
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad.
It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive.
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
So, I think that Marilyn, what she gave the world, and in many ways Kennedy too, was that they had dreams and they didn't allow anybody to take away their dreams.
Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.
Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it - right away.
Great artists are the ones who have put their entire selves out there to be adored, humiliated, to be picked at, cherished, all of those things, and haven't shied away from that.
I've been lucky enough to work with some great directors, and I don't want to throw that away by doing one big horrible big budget film.
The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
I think the wonderful thing about vi is that it has such a good market share because we gave it away.
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
I tried to be a ski bum when I stepped away from Twitter, and I wasn't a very good skier.