You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

I made a living out of being a class clown.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.

I want to do more. I'm never satisfied with what I've done.

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

I think we really almost burnt ourselves out on one record.

I know that sounds selfish, but you have to look at what it's doing to you personally - are you frustrated because of the way people perceive you, or are you happy enough about the things you've realized about yourself that you can tolerate the way people perceive you?

We all enjoy the band and what we're doing, but we know this isn't gonna last forever.

There's no leader of this band, and there never will be. That's the key. You can't control how the public perceives you-people see rock'n'roll bands as the guitar player and the singer.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.

I hate the word 'hippy'. I hate a lot of people, and hippies don't do that!

Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die.

You use everything. You use tragedy you use everything.

I need to start caring about myself if I'm going to be a proper father.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

I'm in road-coma at the moment. But it's OK. I think you subliminally become a junkie of being on the road. As much as you think you're burnt out, the minute you get off you go stir crazy and you just wanna go right back.

We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.

You start wanting to see a different place every day.

It's about how to bring together the seemingly contradictory aspects of the memorial, which is about a tragedy and how it changed the world, but also about creating a vital and beautiful city of the 21st century.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry.

In Shakespearean tragedy the main source of the convulsion which produces suffering and death is never good: good contributes to this convulsion only from its tragic implication with its opposite in one and the same character.

We hope to do the Spanish Tragedy based on the play by Thomas Kyd.

One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.

The calls that I have received from President Bush and Vice President Cheney, the fact that there are other people that are suffering every bit as much as I am, and that our whole nation is going through a tragedy together, I think we have to think about those things.

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

The Constitution is never tested during times of tranquility; it is during times of tension, turmoil, tragedy, trauma, and terrorism that it is sorely tested.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

What then is tragedy? In the Elizabethan period it was assumed that a play ending in death was a tragedy, but in recent years we have come to understand that to live on is sometimes far more tragic than death.

Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.

When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

What makes America great is that we can come together during times of national tragedy.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

The tragedy of September 11th was so sudden, so enormous, and so horrendous, both in terms of lives lost and global consequences, that this country and the world went into immediate and prolonged shock.

It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Gay icons usually have some tragedy in their lives, but I've only had tragic haircuts and outfits.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we, like them, will not rest until this evil is driven from our world.

Vegas means comedy, tragedy, happiness and sadness all at the same time.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

I think it's the tragedy of our time that we're not aware of the affect of the manner in which we've adopted tools. Those tools have become who we are.

This new one was held for a couple months, so I guess it was better, but when we go into thinking our next record tragedy, it traditionally will probably change the distribution again and it will get held up again.

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon.

And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.