Nicholas James Murphy (Chet Faker) Quotes
I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It's easier to be proud of what you're wearing if you've met the people behind the brand and there's more of a personal story.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been one to run from a challenge.
-
I have an ambition to write a great book, but that's really a competition with myself. I've noticed that a lot of young writers, people in all media, want to be famous but they don't really want to do anything. I can't think of anything less worth striving for than fame.
-
He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.
-
I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
I have never had the ambition to be famous for nothing. You have to do something with your life.
-
As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
-
You are an athlete when you're onstage. You can't get tired.
-
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
-
You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
-
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
-
My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
-
A libertarian presidential candidate isn't going to win anyway, so he can afford to say that all taxation is theft, and it isn't the job of a libertarian presidential candidate to cook up new ways to commit theft.
-
You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
-
Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.
-
Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
-
I've been engaged a couple times.
-
The reality is that most celebrity defendants are extremely unknowledgeable, naive, and vulnerable, and if they get into trouble, they usually call their lawyer friends who handle criminal cases, and if they don't know any, they call their business lawyers, who then refer them to lawyer friends of theirs.
-
What we have to do is get the corporations to understand you must include African-American-owned media.
-
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
-
I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
-
At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
-
The law: it has honored us; may we honor it.
-
I like a lot of independent brands - Melbourne's Kloke, Handsom and Neuw Denim, and Bassike in Sydney. It's easier to be proud of what you're wearing if you've met the people behind the brand and there's more of a personal story.
