On My Way Quotes
What makes you think that nonsense is bad? If they'd nurtured and cared for human nonsense over the ages the way they did intelligence, it might have turned into something of special value.
Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be.
People just love to be entertained, and in order to entertain them, you have to do things in a way that they understand.
Many of my songs were dance orientated from way back. That's because I love dance! When I hear a dance number, just hearing the first eight bars, it immediately makes my bod start moving and dancing.
There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it.
Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price. I'm throwing the dice in the air. Why must we learn it the hard way And play the game of life with your heart?
I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express.
I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember.
Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way.
I like documenting people who can break away from the conformist boring world we are stuck in and either live their life in a much more far out way or create art that critiques it well.
It's hard to start and think about having balance. Music is a tough industry, and you have to work your way to that luxury.
Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
Everyone dies without understanding anything. Thats the way the world works, after all.
You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.
Recording stories is a way of honoring the faculty of memory, even if it's recorded, outsourcing memory to technology.
Kenya is a mercurial character. I feel the country has a presence that can turn on its people in a very violent way.
Camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.
My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it's the only way you can test how far you can really go.
I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.
Honestly, the only way Garden State could have been better was if I played every character. I'm awesome.
I don't ask questions. I just figure the extra warm days are God's way of rewarding me for Garden State
I figure it this way - if a woman claims she didn't want me to fudge her, then you already know she's a liar. So what the hell's the point of a trial, y'know?
Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.
In some ways, I feel like I've been such a dilettante for so many years, just picking up instruments and stretching myself so thin.
People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
We've got to continue to find ways to honor our 25 million veterans that have served our country with such honor and distinction.
People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.
I guess I do feel the need to repent. I do feel like I owe the world a great album. I don't know why I feel that way. I just do.
The music starts as being way separate from the lyrics, and I write - I have notebooks that I fill with drawings and just words, and stuff that I've written.
In hindsight, I must have been looking for a way to write about Jewishness that somehow managed to minimize irony and self-deprecation.
The future and where we're going can be very terrifying, in some ways, but it's also really inspirational.
When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.
Oftentimes, people start with something, whatever it is, and it's great, but over the years, it loses its focus or way and corners get cut. Some people are fine with that, but I'm not.
The play I did on Broadway a couple of seasons ago started out of town and it moved its way into New York because of the experience that we had out of town.
Other actors are not my concern, and that's their life and that's their journey. Everybody has to get to a point in their own time and their own way.
