Doing Quotes

I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.

The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.

I try to avoid typecasting by doing different roles.

Character roles definitely age better than your ingenues. You don't get to keep doing that.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing.

All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... And it was a coincidence that these new bands, this new wave of bands, were doing Alice and Iggy rock.

I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.

I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too.

I have things planned for every character like what they're doing down the road and coming to different realizations but I don't have how they overlap.

I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road.

The only risk we run is by doing nothing.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

We hoped against hope that what we had been doing was enough to prevent a riot. It was not enough.

Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.

I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

Sometimes an active policy is best advanced by doing nothing until the right time - or never.

If you have to do it, then you're doing the right thing.

Now, when we first started, I would be playing something good and then feel like I wasn't doing the right thing and launch into some idiotic cliche. Luckily for me, Bobby was patient.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.

The one indication that I got that I was doing the right job in Bosnia was that at different periods of time all the factions came down very hard on me.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Doing what's right isn't the problem. It is knowing what's right.

Creativity is merely a plus name for regular activity. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.

There's fifty bands doing my riffs for ever and ever.

You are richer for doing things.

Everyone keeps asking me, What are you doing? I say, Why do I need to do anything? I'm rich.