I write songs to turn myself into something else. And then I become that, and I want to become something else.
Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.
Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.
I just don't think it's true that people can't do something else after they've done something that seems so permanent.
I hate to lull the audience into letting them think that something is something. It's always fun to defy expectations.
There's something really vulnerable about playing something that you like for someone. You don't know what their reaction will be.
Granted, there are times when, for business reasons, you do something that's more mainstream. But even then, I try to find something that has a dark or subversive aspect.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Music is about communication... it isn't just something that maybe physically sounds good or orally sounds interesting; it's something far, far deeper than that.
I think sometimes people are scared to change. Sometimes people are scared to do something different, especially if they've been successful at something.
But I'm also talented and I know when I created something great and Perfect Night is something great, no doubt, no but.
Not all poetry wants to be storytelling. And not all storytelling wants to be poetry. But great storytellers and great poets share something in common: They had something to say, and did.
I realized that acting was something I wasn't going to be lazy about. You feel good when you do it well. It is something that can grow in you.
It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, or say something is just if it is not just.
Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
I feel like 'Beware' is a heartfelt song - it's something that is definitely a story, something that I cultivated from personal stories, some from just other stories in just wanting to make a good song.
Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.
I'm blessed to be able to work at something that I'm good at, and that I love. It's not something I take for granted.
This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
When politicians offer you something for nothing, or something that sounds too good to be true, it's always worth taking a careful second look.
