Willie Nelson Quotes
'When you think a negative thought, it releases poison in your system. Next thing you know, you wind up with cancer or other diseases. I try to live in the moment without regrets.'
Willie Nelson
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
Lana Del Rey
I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.
Patrick Rothfuss
I live in Rome and five minutes from my flat is a church where you can walk in and see this beautiful Caravaggio. Just the way this man uses dark paint: dark to create dark to create dark, the layering of the darkness in his work. I just race home: I want to create!
Taiye Selasi
A lot of my creative energy is spent coming up with a concept that, once I get it, I feel like it writes itself.
Mallory Ortberg
I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.
Flea
Red Hot Chili Peppers
In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
The '90s was a decade of mundane market-consumer nothingness where there was nothing coming up from the streets; you just had someone in an office deciding what was cool.
Irvine Welsh
Artie said it would be nice if we got married. I said it would be nice, too. The next thing I knew, we were on our way to Las Vegas.
Lana Turner
Until I was five, my immediate family lived near my grandfather's farm where my mother had grown up and, with the exception of a few modern conveniences, had not changed a lot over the years.
Kary Mullis
My brother and I, we were both relatively good-looking guys growing up, but we had our awkward stages, where we were just hard to look at.
Dan Fogler
I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airlines.
T. J. Perkins
Bob Dylan has a way with words that simply blows me away. When he forgets his lyrics he just makes up new ones on the spot, that is what I called talented!
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
I want to reach people and express myself. You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate. You have to put up with people projecting their own ideas, attitudes, misunderstanding you. But it's worth being a public fool if that's all you can be in order to communicate yourself.
Edie Sedgwick
I have a whole 'Halo' corner in my house. One time, when I went to Bungie, they gave me this awesome 'Halo: Reach' backpack. Usually, when you get stuff like that, it either ends up in the garage or going to charity. But I walk around with that 'Halo: Reach' backpack all the time, and I drink out of my 'Halo: Reach' bottle every day.
Aisha Tyler
Self-pity is never useful. It tends to distort like a fun-house mirror.
Anne Roiphe
Relationships between governments are important, but relationships between people are the real foundation of mutual understanding.
J. Christopher Stevens
'When you think a negative thought, it releases poison in your system. Next thing you know, you wind up with cancer or other diseases. I try to live in the moment without regrets.'
Willie Nelson
