If you're retired, it's a blessing. You know, if you want to keep working and doing what you want to do, it's not a blessing as all - it's a curse.
I don't want to write a book; I don't want to go on T.V., because I stink at it. The only thing I have always been comfortable with is being in magazines.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
We knew that we were kind of odd and creeps, and we wanted to do odd, creepy stuff for people who wanted to see that.
I am a peasant from the Auvergne. I want to keep my farm, and I want to keep France. Nothing else matters now.
I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.
The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair.
If your label won't let you have the cover you want or sing the songs you want, then leave!
People, when they buy a hat, they can't explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It's like chocolate.
Ultimately, people do want to buy merch and tickets to support their favorite bands, but they don't want to feel like it's the only thing going on.
I want to be strong enough to cope with the roles, but I don't want to be cast as the guy that takes his shirt off.
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who want to be desired, and people who want to be desired so much that they pretend they don't.
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist - I wanted to be a historian.
I really hate it when people want to kill me. It makes me think they don't want to be friends. - Raven from Blood of Prey
When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.
I want to be a playwright the way people are bank tellers. I want to keep doing it and have it go steadily and smoothly.
Everybody agrees that you want competition. But you have to have rules of fair competition if you want to have competitors to enter the market.
There are a few roles I want to play, but mostly I just want to keep doing a play every now and then, watch kids grow and eat cookies and drink tea.
I don't want a girl who's high-maintenance and wants to go shopping... I like a girl who doesn't wear make-up and is naturally beautiful.
