Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.
In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
I was brought up with a very strong sense of what can happen if your society starts to chip away at the small victories women have won for themselves.
I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel that I'm pretty well rounded.
Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg.
With my music, I can express myself so much. A lot of the fans can sense that I'm relating to them something that's quite personal.
Music just makes sense to me. I don't ever worry when I'm singing. It's the safest place. I am a bit of worrier.
The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I'm not totally against it. It's just we won't put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men.
But, gentlemen, can any of us say that as a result of such overwhelming sacrifices of money, of men, of ideals, and of civil dignity the sense of security has indeed been attained?
When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.
I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.
Alice: It would be so nice if something would make sense for a change.
I can't remember why or how I started writing, but I think it was always a way of making sense of the world.
Whenever success and fame override our senses with greed, arrogance and delusion; it is a time to pause and reflect.
Passion and standing up for things can help create a sense of unity. But you still have to act a certain way.
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
