My work is still very much light-hearted, positive outlook, laugh at yourself. But it isn't going to be the laugh-a-minute kind of thing that my early work was.
There's a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I've always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.
There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.
Kindness is fate’s currency for good fortune. And like all currencies, it is without value when faked.
In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!
One week, you can have a real heavy romance 'Chuck' episode, and the next week it can be some kind of murdery mystery. It's not like doing a procedural.
I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure.
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building?
Critics who do the weekly recap, I find that kind of absurd. That's like reviewing chapters in a novel.
I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.
I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.
If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.
Every night I do thank God for creating my little kind heart which faces all life's pains
The worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.
I'm not an if at first you don't succeed kind of a girl. When it comes to marriage I'm more of a one and done type.
Myths are, in fact...neither primitive nor untrue. They are, rather, a kind of poetry that helps us make sense of the world and our place in it.
It almost contradicts itself," she says after a moment. "It's as if there is love and loss at the same time, together in a kind of beautiful pain.
There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables)
There are two kinds of perfect: The one you can never achieve, and the other, by just being yourself.
Standing in the middle between the idea of an event and the actual event, a strange kind of physical reality just in the middle between possibility and reality.
