I feel like I really tapped into a pretty honest emotional place for myself as a lyricist. There's a broad spectrum of emotions.
When I go in to compete, whether it's gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.
Onstage, you can be anything you want to be. In concert, I might project a different side of myself, but I wouldn't do anything I'd be embarrassed of.
One of the things that I've been trying to do with my characters, one of the things that does lead to me turning things down, is I don't really want to repeat myself.
Her love... so unconditional, so unapologetic; reminds me that I am worth so much more than the standard I have set for myself.
Look up the word role in the dictionary and you'll see it means playing a part. That's why I call myself a real model.
I think of myself as something of a connoisseur of procrastination, creative and dogged in my approach to not getting things done.
Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
I'm so hard on myself. I play these sketches in my computer for friends and they say 'Gee whiz, the vocal's beautiful.' I hear, 'It needs to be better.'
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
I've diagnosed myself and discovered I have a limited 'life span' you can do this to. Then live life to its fullest in everything you do!
I used to spend countless days in my teenage years keeping scorecards, playing cricket and just enjoying myself with friends and having the occasional shandy in the bar.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth.
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
While my friends were busy listening to the Talking Heads, Police, and B-52s, I was busy teaching myself to program on the Atari.
I gotta say, as the father of two beautiful young daughters, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
I won't lie, I've had a lot of discouraging moments in the past years, moments I wasn't sure about things and doubted myself.
My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.
