Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes
It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.
Quotes to Explore
-
Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
-
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
-
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
-
I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
-
Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
-
My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.
-
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
-
Writers have to be very careful and discerning because so much of the machine is out of their control.
-
We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
-
I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
-
When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
-
I have never read 'To Kill A Mockingbird.'
-
When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
-
I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
-
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
-
It's really hard not to fall into that trap of insecurity when you're a model. Beforehand, I never looked at myself in a huge monitor with 30 people around it every day.
-
Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
-
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
-
Let ignorance talk as it will, learning has its value.
-
To properly prepare to receive personal revelation, we must repent, ask through prayer, be obedient, search the scriptures, fast, think pure thoughts, and develop a spirit of reverence.
-
I grew up in big cities my whole life, and in my late 20s, I just felt like I was looking for something else.
-
I am freely able to express myself honestly to the public without trying to polish it over, trying to hide something. I'm just trying to be free with my expression.
-
To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man.
-
It's not about me. I think people are too caught up with what I'm doing. It's just numbers. I'm trying to win.
