Quotes on Something

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don't have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.

You can believe what you want religiously. Religion is one thing, but science, provable science, is something else.

I always tell people there's only one trick to writing: You have to write something that people are willing to pay money to read. It doesn't have to be very good, necessarily, but somebody, somewhere, has got to be willing to pay money for it.

I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.

I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

There is something really horrific for any human being who feels he is being consumed by other people. I'm talking about a writer's critics, who don't address what you've written, but want to probe into your existence and magnify the trivia of your life without any sense of humor, without any sense of context.

Restaurants are like having children: it's fun to make them, maybe, but then you have them for good and bad. You are going to have to raise them and if something goes wrong when they are 30 years old, they will still be your little boy.

As we all know, sexism in the workplace is a serious issue. It's something that needs active disruption and change.

On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.

Building a house is a lot like moviemaking. The attention to detail, the sense that you're doing something that has longevity.

I want to do something to change the mistrust towards politicians.

It turns out the most powerful way we can turn the tide on chronic disease is something we have been doing for millennia: That is walking.

When you have a passion for something then you tend not only to be better at it, but you work harder at it too.

The real prize is finding something new out there.

We get angry about the small things sometimes, I feel, so that we feel like we're doing something, so that we don't have to tackle the big things. And it's fine; let people do that. But I'm not gonna now change because of that. You know? Like, the worst thing that happens to me is you don't like me. And then what?

If you laugh with somebody, then you know you share something.

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.

Getting out to protest, this is something real and, I would say, something patriotic. Part of the new authoritarianism is to get people to prefer fiction and inaction to reality and action.