It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

It sounds odd coming from me, but I realize what I say and how I look has a great impact.

I don't have dreams. How can I say it? I myself am a dream.

I don't set goals. Like, that's what I want to be doing however many years from now. I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes.

I always like whatever I did most recently. It's the closest to who I am at the moment.

I don't think you should meet the people you most admire. I don't want reality to interfere with my image.

In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself.

I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I couldn't even have anticipated that kind of welcome.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes.

I have trouble voicing my thoughts... I can't communicate very well that way.

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute. Even if I was given two months, I'd do it in the last three days.

I do what I love to do at the moment. If I wake up tomorrow and decide I want to dance, that's what I'd do. Or design clothes. I think I'd throw myself into whatever I'm doing now. It's not about abandoning what I was doing before, or giving up. It's about knowing that if I die tomorrow, I lived the way I wanted to.

I understand it's my role to realize people's dreams. I'm O.K. with that so long as my songs are my own. No one can take my songs away from me.

I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

If I write when I'm low, it will be a dark song, but I don't care. I want to be honest with myself at all times.

If there are rules and regulations, I can't help it, I want to break them.

It is necessary that I am viewed as a product. I am a product.

Of course, my motto is still, 'Work is work, private is private.'

The way I work, typically, I do everything at the very last minute.

The lovers appearing happy walk holding hands. Though it appears everything is perfect only they know the truth.

As a kid, I loved the whimsical Superman and Batman stuff, and as a teenager, Marvel was more angsty, and that appealed to me. Marvel dealt with more stuff I could relate to as a teenager.

I was glad to play in the Negro Leagues. I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world.

I'm not a politician. I'm not a lawyer. I'm just a country boy.

Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.

A dog has one aim in life... to bestow his heart.

Go for a walk through Central Park and stop at the Met. It's the best way to get a feel for what makes New York so special.

Lead singers not only do the majority of the work, but their personalities are singled out and taken as the general attitude of the unit.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case.

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

Americans born since World War II have grown up in a media-saturated environment. From childhood, we have developed a sort of advertising literacy, which combines appreciation for technique with skepticism about motives. We respond to ads with at least as much rhetorical intelligence as we apply to any other form of persuasion.

When you're on set, you have to perform and look the part.

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.

Ten years into it, I can finally go, 'Oh, I just want to make a record that's fun to make and I don't have to prove that I deserve to be here.'

One of the funny things of being a producer, you have these fleeting, intense relationships with people, and they go off to global megastardom, and you don't see them.

Music has always been transnational people pick up whatever interests them and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world.

On the morning, Daddy and I get up at six o'clock because Christmas trees must be bought in the dark. We walk to the other end of town, as the big harbour is just the right setting for buying a Christmas tree. We spend hours choosing, looking at every branch suspiciously. It's always cold.

As a company grows, its purpose grows with it. It has the potential to evolve your purpose.

Though I'm a fashion designer, I never stuff my luggage with too many items.

Belief creates behaviors.

Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

I have to keep working because, although I have land, I'm not cash rich and don't have the wealth of high-profile actresses - don't say I'm an 'actor.' That's a bit too modern.