I can only say that in life when you have the greatest expectations and you try to do things the right way, it doesn't always work out.
When I found out I was pregnant, I was 22. It was really scary because I was working the music thing, and with a kid coming, you just can't live that life with a child.
With my son, I work very hard to keep him away from the press and media and I want an opportunity for him to lead as normal a life as possible.
To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.
But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work as his legacy. That's all that life allowed him.
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
I do give myself a break in my personal life but I think in work, if you don't push yourself you get bored and want to do something else.
I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I work with my heart and my head, and naturally emotions follow.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.
As a jobbing actor, I never get a script and go 'I can't be bothered with this.' Life doesn't work like that. For a movie star, maybe, but for a jobbing actor, that doesn't happen.
Poetry, it is often said and loudly so, is life's true mirror. But a monkey looking into a work of literature looks in vain for Socrates.
In my own life, when I'm not working, I do wear a lot of black. I think I do feel very comfortable in black.
We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.
There are no doubts that, the situation in the country today, indicates that there is much more work to do in the process of reforming the political economy and improving the quality of life of our people and communities.
I feel fully decided that we should all go to Europe together and to work as if an established Partnership for Life consisting of Husband Wife and Children.
Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.
There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.
The majority of my work is from life. I spend most fine days from May to October painting outside.
I always said life consists of love and work. I tried to balance it 50-50. And, of course, now I'm so happy I did.
I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.
I won't stop fighting to make life better for working Americans and give those who are just trying to find a decent job the opportunity to do so.
