Marilyn Monroe Quotes

A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

For me, the best part of being in a band is playing shows, all the raw energy.

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why.

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

Steve Martin is such an exquisite and precise writer. Everything is so clear; it's like a bell. He says what he means and says it so beautifully.

All you have to be is kind. That's all you need. Once you've got that, it virtually rules out everything else.

In improv, the whole thing is that it is a relationship between the two people, as a back and forth. In standup, you don't really want to be listening to what somebody is saying; you want to project your jokes into their face.

You have to do stand-up quite a long time before you learn how to do it well. It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense.

A lot of my mates are actors and it's lovely to be able to work with friends.

If I had a bad performance in a particular leotard, I threw it in the trash.

It may sound a bit like an army barracks, but the truth of the matter is: there must be some time laid aside for arranging, time for working on either a book or an article - I've written two articles in the last four months for the New York Times book review section.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.

It's a very, very difficult space to operate in, the restaurant business-it requires a lot of human beings to intersect at just the right place to make it all work out.

She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.

When you're moved by music, that's always good.

'True Blood' is amazing. I have to give a shout out to 'Melrose Place' because I do watch. I love 'Entourage.' One of my favorite shows back in the day was 'Friday Night Lights.'

It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

Properly practiced creativity must result in greater sales more economically achieved. Properly practiced creativity can lift your claims out of the swamp of sameness and make them accepted, believed, persuasive, urgent.