When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.
I love anybody who's willing to stick to their own vision, their own voice, who's not easily swayed by money or by financers who are going to tell them what they should do.
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.
I'd love to create my own stuff. I've always written stuff, but it would be nice to have my hand a little deeper in the clay, so to speak.
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
When I do have time to work on music, I'm kind of selfish, and would rather work on my own stuff than someone else's.
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
I only listen to my own music when I'm playing an hour-and-half set each night. I don't put it on recreationally.
My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.
My marriage was breaking up, and my marriage with Chong was breaking up. I had to come back and kind of start on my own again.
I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!
I have always done my own stunts, and I have been in hundreds of fights in films, but I have never been in a fist fight outside the movies.
I had a certain career as an actor that I think was quite personal as well, and had a lot of integrity, but I wasn't writing my own things or directing my own movies.
Briony Tallis, aged 13: Yes. I saw him. I saw him with my own eyes.
Milly Stephenson: You're crazy. Al Stephenson: No. Too sane for my own good.
The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.
What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own?
I'm not confused about what's happening in fashion, because I follow my own direction and go.
