Quotes

I want to find that happy spot where I am emotionally happy and where I am making music almost every day, that would be the life.

I'm super-honest with a lot of my supporters, I tell them a lot about my life, and I think they appreciate the realness, and they appreciate when people listen back, and when discussions are discussed.

Every show that I do, I always have a lifelong friend or three that I still talk to that I consider family.

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

People often say Beckett is difficult or bleak, but engaging with it is the most life-affirming, uplifting thing. It's his use of language. The music of the words works on your subconscious. You end up deeply moved but don't know why. That's where the magic lies.

I've been singing all of my life, one way or another.

I think 'Blood' is honest about the dysfunction of family life and Jim will have to get to the bottom of secrets being kept from him.

When you're young and a teenager, there's an air of excitement about living with a time when you have to grasp life as much as you can because it may be taken from you.

There was a period in my life when alcohol was a good friend. Then there came a point when I realized that it was definitely not a good friend. I haven't had a drink now for many years.

But it needs to be understood that alcoholism is a disease not a lifestyle choice.

I have never been in an ongoing series before and after series two I realized the writer has absolute control of your life.

Even though we work in the same field, we have an intense private life away from our professional lives.

What is important is family, friends, giving back to your community and finding meaning in life.

My family is mostly a chosen one. I've managed to invite some really amazing people into my life and they become family. Brothers, sisters, siblings, mentors, role models. And I like to live that way, where your family bleeds out into the larger community.

We are on parallel paths with the planet. The wants and needs of marine wildlife are our own: we want connection, companionship, a healthy clean environment.

I think we need to recognize that learning is a lifelong goal, a lifelong experience.

I had a taste of the Hollywood experience doing 'Primary Colors.' Constant sunshine, your own chauffeur, drop-top BMW, the life of a 'major motion-picture star.' Then I came home and did no paid work for a year.

I normally play characters who are dealing with an overall objective - a great 'want' in their life.

Life's stories are important to tell because they remind us just how much strength ordinary people have when facing everyday, huge problems.

As an actor, having to portray a real-life person of extreme talent is fine as long as you're not playing the part on stage and forced to demonstrate that talent to a live audience. If you're in a play portraying an incredible dancer? All well and good, just... don't dance.

I think the mixture of pressure and elation after winning the world title took some getting used to and that impacted on my personal life big-time.

I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.

In the crime fiction section, you may just find a novel that talks about the place where you're from and speaks to you about your life - or the life yours could have become if a little misfortune had come your way.

My life has taken on a different course. I've got a responsibility now not just as a husband but as a father.

There's probably somebody out there who has been dying to be Tony Stark, their whole life, and it will never happen. And then, it comes to me because I happened to do 'Heroes.' I mean, I love it. I'm totally respectful of the position, but I wasn't pursuing it.