If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
Bring love and peace and happiness and beautiful lives into the world in my honor. Thank you. Love you.
The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
Short stories, for me, it's like you step inside this brand new car and you drive it and you drive it into a tree and you walk away from it.
When you really don't like a guy, they're all over you, and as soon as you act like you like them, they're no longer interested.
Sometimes when, you know, God tries to correct you in private and if you don't catch it he'll correct you in public.
You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
You kind of hope as a musician that you get some recognition for what you do, and when you do, it's nice. It's a really good feeling.
You can only be as good as your audience. Sometimes you can be as bad as your audience, but you have to remember you can never be better than them.
You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.
At a certain point, if you work really hard and you get good and people like your work, you do deserve the fame - but you shouldn't take it for granted.
You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
The fears you run away from run toward you. The fears you don't own will own you. But behind every fear wall lives a precious treasure.
