Tough times never last, but tough people do.
You cannot run away from weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I was able to do something that people can't do these days, which is to have quality time with the guys who were trying to be president and a number of them who got the job.
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one ti...
It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.
The absurdist stuff wasn't terribly popular at the time I was doing it.
I'd rather spend my time looking at the sky than listening to Whitney Houston.
A lot of journalists give me a hard time about how I look, but I've never met a journalist I'd rather look like.
I am very self-conscious a lot of the time.
When you're on stage, the real world just drops away for that time. It's pretty intense.
Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.
Each time I play a song it seems more real.
I'm happy quite a lot of the time. I've done far more than I ever thought I would have, so I'd be very hard-pressed to walk around miserable.
I'm very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time.
I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror.
At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.
Leaders understand that the real fight is the fight against time. There's so much to achieve in such less time.
Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.
I lost that excitement I had when I first started out. It was all about the need to just get a job, and so I found the joy again when I was writing Deuce Bigelow. I was laughing so hard and along with my writing partner at the time, simply laughing u...
And I'm supposed to grab her and kiss her and she's supposed to react. Well, what happened was, Julie was very nervous at that time, given this incredible part which she did beautifully.
I'm not so sure that younger people today really appreciate the enormous bravery that went into the creation and production of that film, or how important a film at the time it really was.
