Mo Brooks Quotes

I'm still a horse that can run. I may not be able to win the Derby, but what do you do when you retire? People retire and they vegetate. They go away and they dry up.

But I have bad taste with a deep fount of intellectuality.

That's it baby, if you've got it, flaunt it.

Creative people should always be striving, they should always be hungry, they should be looking for the next place to go.

Any man's greatness is a tribute to the nobility of all mankind, so when we celebrate the genius of [Leo] Tolstoy, we say, "Look! One of our boys made it! Look what we're capable of!"

I like Chris Rock. He's dangerous.

I also try to surround myself with people I love - make a family out of the company. So I tend to use the same people over and over. There's a sort of Mel Brooks Repertory Company.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

As far as songwriters, I've always been a fan of Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and George Gershwin; those guys mean a lot to me.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Coleman Jacoby and Arnie Rosen won an Emmy and Mel Brooks didn't! Niezsche was right! There is no God! There is no God!

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

I don't have a mission. I don't have a torch to burn.

There's an army story in me, and I think there's a WWII Brooks film somewhere.

I was in the army, and to me it was like a newsreel.

I've always loved songwriting, and I vowed to be a songwriter like Cole Porter when I was only 9 years old.

My brothers went to work at 12 and put themselves through school and brought the family out of ruin into food and clothing.

Tolstoy was the most gifted writer who ever lived. It's like he stuck a pen in his heart and it didn't even go through his mind on its way to the page.

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

My favorite movie is The Wizard of Oz. I love the fairy tale of it. And Gone With the Wind was always one of my favorites because it's so dramatic and stunning.

You don't realize 'till you get here what a moment in history you're a part of.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.

I don't mean that to be egotistical, but I'm not writing fluff. I'm not writing for 8-year-olds. I'm a woman and I'm a rock girl.

Mackie is an electronics recording company backing me, and they're willing to invest giving equipment to schools that I choose, and they've already started doing that.

When I lived in Seattle and Oregon, we partied, which is a large reason I don't know drugs or alcohol now because I saw the Destruction of so many great musicians and artists.

It's just that only now are women coming around, and when someone as striking as Alanis or Sheryl Crow comes out, the public just needs something to compare it to.

I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

My favorite color is purple. I have a huge velvet purple comforter on my bed.

I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

Everything I read about me is what I say. The way I've come across is exactly who I am. So far, they haven't skewed it to be one way or another too much.

There are very few interviews I turn down, because I really dig talking to people and hanging out.

I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.

I know my ambitions are big, but you've got to have something after rock and roll.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

I grabbed my drummer's cymbal in my teeth just as he crashed down on it with his sticks-I blacked out. I was a punk in those days. It was in Seattle. I still have all my teeth too, it's amazing.

I classify myself as a student and a teacher. This year, I'm back into the student. I try to stay balanced. I learn so much every time I walk about my door.

I had a very sexual experience onstage once. But I won't go there.

I first met Hanson over in Japan and they gave me some great advice about the fans and they seem real down to earth. They're great.

I don't think science is totally true, because I've seen miracles happen through prayer.

My mentoring program is pretty specific, it's about self-empowerment, about being able to find solutions through teamwork. That's one of my first goals.

The Graces was a great experience; it's great working with women, but we weren't put together in an organic way, and I think that's why we didn't stay together. There wasn't that natural friendship.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

Stop thinking you have to go to big industry to have a big life, because it's not the truth.

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

I want to break the old paradigm of thinking that if you're successful, you have to crash and burn-that all of this won't be there tomorrow.

My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

Twenty years from now, I hope I'm consistently in my life, in the zone. I have seen the next year before.

My eyes change colors, which is why you guys have never been able to figure it out.

I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.