I always prided myself on at least trying to be literate and use the right words, and if the audience didn't get it, then they could go home and look it up.
But I'm always trying to plan ahead too and in doing so, and in working on this album, I've met a lot people that I hope to be involved with, on their records and in their situations.
I hope I did it the way my peers did it before me. I didn't do anything but try to play hard.
They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.
But if you don't watch me, I will try and sneak in some humor. I see humor everywhere in life around me.
Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
The history of trying to start a daily where there already is one is that it has never worked.
Woody Allen said that 95% of history is explained as a man trying to impress a woman. And that's true in my life.
Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.
I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.
I'm a hopeless mother; a hopeless wife; I have to try harder. I'm just a pathetic case history, really.
Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.
I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep trying new things.
Now having said that, I realize that releasing a film in the real world is like trying to get General Motors to release a handmade car.
My mom always liked the idea of us acting - me and my sister - like, one of us trying it. But my dad always thought it was a joke.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
