I have reached the point where I know that as long as I sit down to write, the ideas will come. What they will be, I don't know.
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
I started out in the 'Cure' reflecting things that I thought were important, and it's reached a point where it takes over and becomes the thing that is important.
We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers.
If you know where you stand, and your minus and plus points as a director or as a human being, you will never go wrong. You will always be successful.
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
'West Side Story' was one of the high points of my career. Yet, when I first saw it, I was really disappointed in how I came off.
You will never know the moon or stars, unless you breathe in their solar system and inspect it from many diverse vantage points as possible.
It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.
I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
When you really listen to another person from their point of view, and reflect back to them that understanding, it's like giving them emotional oxygen.
Even the most self-confident people, at one point of their lives, felt like outsiders or felt like they weren't being heard or seen or witnessed in some way.
People negotiate their way around how a human mind works and find blind points. That's how people steal effectively.
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.
Everybody has their story - at some point you have to say, 'This is who I am: Now it's up to me to become what I want to be.'
Ridicule is a weak weapon when pointed at a strong mind; but common people are cowards and dread an empty laugh.
When life pushes you down, just roll with the storm, because at one point you'll push life right back.
A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn't kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.
