I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.
We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.
The mind when it has an old experience will add that data into its current experience, and it keeps coming up with wrong answers.
No doubt one can, in light of further study and life experience, come to repudiate past convictions.
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance.
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
I'm pro-forwards. Do I want the Seventies to come back? No. The haircuts were terrible. Everyone stank. The food was awful.
The time has come to recognize that food, how we produce it, process it, package it, sell it, cook it and eat it, is as important as any other issue.
There's a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.
Alaska Airlines and I have a lot in common, so coming together to delight travelers with savory, high quality food from the Pacific Northwest made sense.
I find that all great directors, and I would include Ben Affleck and Clint Eastwood in that, they have great confidence. And with great confidence comes great freedom for the actor.
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
Today's average American is more apt to rebel against a tennis shoe not coming in the right color than against the slow erosion of our democratic freedom.
All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility.
If you think my career has been a failure because I have never won a national title, you have another thing coming.
The failure of the system to deal quickly was attributable to Nixon's lying, stonewalling and refusal to come clean. So it took 26 months for the final truth to be known.
