One of the challenges is creating characters. I am trying to compose my sentences to express epic events happening to ordinary people.
If you're a true student of the truth, you may easily get frustrated when people try to make points based on mysticism and cultural beliefs.
Let’s face it. It’s already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.
I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
I know it really sounds cheesy, but I did feel a duty to try to tell the stories of people who couldn't speak for themselves.
I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
I don't think people shouldn't try to be edgy, but you have to take what the audience says to you in consideration.
I'm a realist. Where I come from, 'phenomenons' don't exist. I'm from a land where people make mistakes and try again, harder, faster; where negativity is not an option.
I think the press gets lazy once a certain kind of image is out there. It just adheres, rather than the press trying to break that down.
It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere.
I'm continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you're uncomfortable, it means you're growing.
If you want you can die any way you want, but no matter how much you try you cannot live the way you want.
I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.
I just grow a terrible mustache, so I try to use my neckbeard as a substitute. And when I get lazy, I don't shave that often.
I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.
Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.
I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
I think things are beautiful when you don’t plan them, and you don’t have any expectations, and you’re not trying to get somewhere in particular.
Everyone says corruption is everywhere, but for me it seems strange to say that and then not try to put the people guilty of that corruption away.
If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
