Matthew Shafer (Uncle Kracker) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
-
I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.
-
I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
-
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
-
I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
-
I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.
-
There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
-
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.
-
I think the interesting thing about the word 'posh' is that it is so relative; it's quite a provocative title because people have strong feelings about that word.
-
A cat is never vulgar.
-
I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
-
You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
-
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
-
I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.
-
The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
-
The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
-
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
-
There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
-
I think enjoying each other in a creative way is usually a result of when you're doing something that might be problematic - might be a little difficult to uncover. I've done it once in a stage production; we came in for two days and, just as an experiment, the director had us reading each other's roles. You hear another voice interpreting a line that maybe you were having trouble with. It can be very helpful. But we weren't really in the kind of situation where that was necessary.
-
Happiness can't start with external stuff, whether that's money or success or your body.
-
I'm a fan of supersymmetry, largely because it seems to be the only route by which gravity can be brought into the scheme. It's probably not even enough, but it's a way forward to get gravity involved. If you have supersymmetry, then there are more of these particles. That would be my favourite outcome.
-
Everyone should try to live their life like they'd like to be a role model.
-
The Orthodox hierarchy doesn't have the kind of power that high-ranking clergy do in other churches. There isn't even a worldwide governing board to hold all the various Orthodox bodies together.
-
The only thing that kept me out of college was high school.
