Quotes

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

To me, every interview, even if you love the artist, needs to be somewhat adversarial. Which doesn't mean you need to attack the person, but you do need to look at it like you're trying to get information that has not been written about before.

I started doing martial arts since I was 12, and then I went into wrestling in college. After I met John Hackleman, I started getting really serious about it, and after a few amateur fights, I got an invite to the UFC and have been in love with it ever since.

I'm a fighter, and I'll always be a fighter, and it's what I love to do.

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

I like Glover Teixeira; he's a former training partner.

Conor McGregor has a big mouth. But I do love the way he fights.

I don't think the itch to fight has ever left me, ever. I mean, I got paid to do what I love for a living, and I got paid very well to do it. So that's going to always be there. That's always going to be like, 'Man, I wouldn't mind getting out there again.'

I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.

Then I loved the fact that we were actually recording live.

As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

I watched Prime Minister Netanyahu's speech before Congress, and I saw a man who loves his country with all his heart and soul. I also saw a strong leader, which is absolutely crucial for the safety of the Israeli people.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

'Romance' is based on my entire creative process. I fall in love with an idea, obsess over it, isolate myself with it, and when I eventually introduce it to my friends, they all tell me that it's stupid.

Portland is quickly becoming one of those lovely, lush Third World countries where kinda-rich people retire with their money.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

I think America is just so in love with conflict.

I love the power of words - no music or special effects - and I want to demonstrate that power.

People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

Do not let arguments of expediency persuade you. That is the slow road to oblivion. That is the tortured path to undoing step by step, bit by bit, as the river creates a canyon, the way of life that we love.

My father, Abe, was a small businessman. For 32 years, he ran an exterminating company. That may explain why our family always associated the smell of roach spray with love.

America has a love-hate relationship with celebrity. We love to follow celebrities, but we also love to mock them. And secretly, we believe we're better than they are.