My Life Quotes
-
Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
-
I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
-
I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.
-
I've always been open about my life not because my story is unique, but because it isn't.
-
After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
-
The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
-
Being homeschooled for half of my life allowed me to choose my own curriculum and find things I really enjoy, and that's kind of inspired me. I've always been intrigued in or interested in the topics I've been covering.
-
The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
-
I know my life is nearing its end and I accept that.
-
I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
-
My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
-
Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
-
The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
-
I had hoped when my life was chronicled, it would be an inspirational story.
-
In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
-
The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
-
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
-
Somebody said to me this morning, 'To what do you attribute your longevity?' I don't know. I mean, I couldn't have planned my life out better. By all accounts I should be dead! The abuse I put my body through: the drugs, the alcohol, the lifestyle I've lived the last 30 years!
-
I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
-
I can honestly say that my abortion was one of the least difficult decisions of my life. I'm not being flippant when I say it took me longer to decide what worktops to have in the kitchen than whether I was prepared to spend the rest of my life being responsible for a further human being.
-
I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing.
-
I've met enough KGB colonels in my life.
Garry Kasparov -
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
-
I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
