Warren Zevon Quotes
Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
Quotes to Explore
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?
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A few years ago, I found out that there's a lot of Gypsy blood on my mother's side. I'm wild in that way - I've been brought up to do my own thing.
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I've been writing songs since I was at least 20. That's what I wanted to do before I became a model.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Love is the one wild card.
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I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Cloisters.' And 'The lady from Knoxville who bought her brassieres by the boxful.' I just feel a sort of small triumph.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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I was born free.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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A confession has to be part of your new life.
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My favourite place to eat is my grandma's kitchen. She makes a mean crab cake.
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I'm first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can't say why I'm one.
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I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach about an 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession that doesn't appeal to me. Once I reach 80 percent level I like to go off and do something totally different; that probably explains the diversity of the Patagonia product like - and why our versatile, multifaceted clothes are the most successful.
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When a nation becomes obsessed with the guns of war, it loses its social perspective.... There is something about a war like this that makes people insensitive. It dulls the conscience. It strengthens the forces of reaction, and it brings into being bitterness and hatred and violence.
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Sickness, doctors, that scares me, not violence - helplessness. That's why I turn to violent stories.
