Quite Quotes

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

Some people come out going, I don't get it. And I don't quite know what they're trying to get, what they're struggling for. We have had the reaction where people leave the movie sort of uncomfortable and befuddled. Although that wasn't our intention.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing.

I'm quite excited to think that I will run the Olympic race here next year.

There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful.

Sometimes I'll get to the end of a song, open my eyes and there's all these faces peering at me. It's quite horrifying.

I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic.

I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

A course never quite looks the same way twice. The combinations of weather, season, light, feelings and thoughts that you find there are ever-changing.

I think high self-esteem is overrated. A little low self-esteem is actually quite good. Maybe you're not the best, so you should work a little harder.

I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.

I look at the careers of people I'm standing on the shoulders of. People like Lena Horne, Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis Jr., and Sarah Vaughan. These are icons I wanted to emulate, and I feel like they've been holding me up for quite a long time.

I rode in a nine-day charity ride recently, averaged 43km a day and still finished in the lead group. I'm 38, not quite finished yet.

I am quite certain in my heart of hearts that modern music and modern art is not a conspiracy, but is a form of truth and integrity for those who practise it honestly, decently and with all their being.

A Swedish newspaper reporter called and said, You've been awarded the Prize. I was quite sure it was a practical joke.