No, my degree was history, not the practice of art! I can't draw to save my life you know.
The busier you are, the more interesting you are. The more you're off doing your thing and loving your job and your life, that's fascinating.
I've never been involved in something where people cared about my personal life and the gossip of it!
He had Parkinson's disease for about, I'd say diagnosed for about 11 of the last years of his life. And treatment was not as good as it is now, of course. We're still going along and he died in '85 and he was 77.
Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
When we believe that God is Father, we also believe that such a father's hand will never cause his child a needless tear. We may not understand life any better, but we will not resent life any longer.
Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.
My love life is like everyone else's - great, and then terrible.
As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.
There has to be a way to live the life you're accustomed to and not sacrifice things. Americans are not very good about sacrificing.
I spent my childhood in the country and started reading even before going to school. There was nothing else in my life but sketching and reading.
I do know Joe Lansdale has the most extraordinary voice you've ever heard in your life in terms of an accent that, when I started doing it, they had to go, 'Whoa, we need less.' But that's how he talks.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
Because we have so much eye candy and mind candy, spending so much time trying to pay the rent, all of this conspires to keep us from thinking too hard or taking action from that. Our time is stolen. So much of our daily life is stolen.
We don't have too much ritual in our life anymore. And these life symbols which people rely on to keep their feeling of well being, that life is not too bad after all are required more and more.
Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
You have to trust your kids. They have to experience life, and you just hope you've provided them a foundation for what's right and what isn't.
There comes a time in every man's life when he realises he will never be James Bond.
The republic I fell in love with, the republic I risked my life to defend, the values I hold dear, the integrity that we all share - these do not know prejudice and they do not accept partiality.
I've been doing African dance all my life.
Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance.
My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.
All I can say about life is, 'Oh God, enjoy it!'
When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.
It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
I couldn't have come up with a better metaphor for my life and my internal conflict. It amazes me how quickly we can manifest our fears; not only had I created my 'I'm never satisfied, I'll drive her away' nightmare.
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
I'm ecstatic: meeting Ranbir was like a dream come true for me, and to perform and be praised by him is like an icing on the cake. This memory, I would cherish for my entire life.
My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
And my life for the first - you know, when I was in my 20s and 30s, I had my career, and I traveled the world, I lived out of a suitcase. I stayed up until dawn. I did all of those things that were very exciting.
Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.
All I can say to the kids is if you've a problem in fishing or life, if you talk to an older person, you're gonna end up alright, because nine times out of 10, they've been through the same thing.
I live my life trying to never appear to be a small man.