My Life Quotes
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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.
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The aim of my life is the overthrow of monarchy.
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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.
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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.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.
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I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.
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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.
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I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and I think it has been so, frankly, disgusting.
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I've always been seen as the underdog in everything I've ever done in my life, and it doesn't bother me in the slightest. The lessons have just made me stronger.
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My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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The compulsively readable events of my life occurred mainly in infancy, and it's been pretty humdrum ever since.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.
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I've grown up by the beach all my life, and I almost get anxiety if I haven't been swimming for a couple weeks or a month. It kind of builds up, so I try and get out as much as possible.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
