Me Quotes

In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.

I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"

If somebody ever wished to be me for a day, they'd be the most pissed-off person once they got here. They would be, like, in hell.

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy.

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.

I give and give, even when I get nothing back - and that sets me up for disappointment.

The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.

I have more than one side of me that likes to get out on a stage and sing.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.

Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

When friends asked me, Can we help? I'd say, Not unless you can alter time, speed up the harvest or teleport me off this rock. I used that line from Star Wars.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and think, Aren't we kind of the same age?

Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.