The Weeknd (Abel Makkonen Tesfaye) Quotes
If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.
Quotes to Explore
-
Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
-
Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
Major success feels a bit like a coronation. Like I'd become a king. I was one of the most famous people in the world, loved and hated in equal measure. I couldn't see anything bad with it. It made me a happy person.
-
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
-
I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
-
An American of the present day reading his Sunday newspaper in a state of lazy collapse is one of the most perfect symbols of the triumph of quantity over quality that the world has yet seen.
-
I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
-
I love ice cream, and I love chocolate.
-
The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
-
'Vanity' means worthlessness.
-
I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
-
I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.
-
I think every professor and writer is in some way an exhibitionist because his or her normal activity is a theatrical one. When you give a lesson the situation is the same as writing a book. You have to capture the attention, the complicity of your audience.
-
The kind of thing I'm good at is knowing every politician in the state and remembering where he itches. And I know where to scratch him.
-
I keep threatening to keep a formal journal, but whenever I start one it instantly becomes an exercise in self-consciousness. Instead of a journal I manage to have dozens of notebooks with bits and pieces of stories, poems, and notes. Almost every thing I do has its beginning in a notebook of some sort, usually written on a bus or train.
-
I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
-
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
-
The difficulty in life is the choice.
-
Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow... I give them a little bit of an escape.
-
I want people to leave the cinema feeling that something's been confirmed for them about life.
-
I have learned how to plant coastal hay, fertilize and bale it.
-
I came out of the womb drawing on everything; I used to draw on my mother's white furniture and her white walls with her red lipstick and my pencils. Little did she know that would later materialize into me doing what I do now - I'm a painter as well and a micromechanical engineer.
-
If you ever see young artists, and they're not sounding good, they sound good. They're good singers. They wouldn't be where they are if they didn't sound good. It's their nerves. Any time you see your favorite artist, and he's or she's screwing up or not hitting those notes, it's not because she can't hit it or she can't sing; he or she is scared.
