I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

People are usually afraid to say what's on their mind.

I had trouble distinguishing art from life. I don't now, and I feel much better!

I like it when songs develop in some way. Four minutes usually isn't enough time for something to develop musically.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

We're not getting any younger.

What do you do with what you're given, and how do you transform it into something worthwhile?

When you get a groove going, time flies.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

I took some lessons as a kid but trained myself by ear. I did it the way jazz musicians used to learn years ago, which is to play records and slow them down to figure out the notes. At first I tried to imitate Red Garland, who was my favorite jazz pianist.

I've never been comfortable as a lead performer, and I never wanted to be a singer, particularly.

My style is a little quirky. I can't play as fast as most professional jazz players.

My writing is really intuitive. As a kid, I went to school in New Jersey and hung out in New York, so the way kids used to talk got into our earlier songs.

Popularity has everything to do with business and nothing to do with music.

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me. I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a sense of ethics and decency was one of the bitter ironies of history.

You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.

There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can't forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and eliminate the flaws that allowed this leak and prosecute any criminal acts.

There is a price for popularity. Critics look for your weaknesses, your flaws, anything that makes the work seem like a fluke and not seem worthy of all the attention it's getting.

The painter who feels obligated to depict his subjects as uniformly beautiful or handsome and without flaws will fall short of making art.

I have a critical nature, in the sense that when I look at something I often look for the flaws.

We need to be calling out the flaws and misguided decisions of the Democrats in Congress and the Obama administration.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.

It would be really great if people would realize that stars are only people with the same weaknesses and flaws, not immaculate idols.

Western society has many flaws, and it is good for an educated person to have thought some of these through, even at the expense of losing a lecture or two to tear gas.

If there are flaws they are in ourselves, and our task therefore must be one not of redesign but of renewal and reaffirmation, especially of the standards in which all of us believe.

This president has been reluctant to hold anybody accountable. No one was held accountable after September the 11th. Nobody's been held accountable after the clear flaws in intelligence leading up to the war in Iraq.

The weakness of ourselves and of our reason makes us see flaws in beauties by making us consider everything piece by piece.

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

You can find flaws in Agassi and Sampras, but Federer has none.

It's a very complex scenario, and certainly Dave was, and is, not the only person in Pearl Jam with personality flaws. Everybody in this band exhibits some form of neurotic behavior. And we couldn't find a balance, a mutual respect for each other.

I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws. People have really odd opinions. They tell me I'm skinny, as if that's supposed to make me happy.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?

I love it when ugliness is beautiful. I love character flaws.

However, when Java is promoted as the sole programming language, its flaws and limitations become serious.