The hard thing isn't getting what you want, it's knowing what you want.
As a general thing, I've always been drawn to characters who appear to be one thing on the surface, but are actually something else underneath.
If you can design one thing, you can design everything.
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.
You have to finish things — that’s what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.
The most difficult thing a failure can do is accept his identity or status
Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.
All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.
If you talk about preemption you better know things rather than think things.
We're very reluctant to change, even though we know that all things change, and especially our relationships are just determined to change.
There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.
The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.
The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless.
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.
The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.
I need more raw experience. I've read and watched a lot of things, but I haven't done a lot of things.
One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.
It's always been something I've been searching for - freedom. It's a very relative thing. It means different things to different people.
To me, music has to be about freedom. It's the most important thing in my life.
