Trying Quotes - Page 529

Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.

We try to coordinate regularly with Russia, as well as with others - except for the United States - on what is happening in the region. And we're open to discussing with everybody the situation in Syria, because we believe it's a common threat.

Once you start moving [market] lower, then you trigger of all sorts of things. You trigger people who have to sell because they're over-levered. So they sell their winners and their losers. They're just trying to raise cash. So, what you then get is spreading malaise throughout the global markets.

I don't think too much about how it might exist in the world in a commercial sense - I more just try and focus on making music that I love and trying to put it out into the world.

All I want to do with my life is try and make music that I really love, and so every day I try and work on music.

That’s why I make music. When I listen to my favorite music made by other people, that’s what it does to me. So as a musician, I’m just trying to do the same thing with music I make. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. But when someone comes to me and says the music I’ve made has affected them emotionally, that’s the most gratifying part of my job.

My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do with human beings trying to figure out their place on this planet.

My biggest concern is trying to keep crazy Republicans out of office.

I just want to try - on a daily basis keep trying - to make music that I really love.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

I'm not trying to look for pity or sympathy. I was just surprised that so many people in the world of entertainment seemed to be okay with misogyny and homophobia as long as they were profiting from it.

For me my biggest inspiration is trying to make music that effects me as much as the music made by my heroes.

There's a fairly extensive network of musicians on tour who are all trying to stay sober, and we generally reach out to each other and offer support when and where we can.

There are some public figures who are very private and almost hide behind their work. I try to be as open as possible.

A part of me wants to sort of try and sound cool and feed this myth that I'm some sort of glamorous lothario, but I was raised by women - my mother and her mother and my aunts - and as a result, most of my friends have always been women.

I wanted to try to push some freedom into the men's clothes.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

Look, I was an independent during the time of Reagan-Bush. I'm not trying to return to Reagan-Bush.

Certainly, no church should be involved in trying to set the affairs of the nation.

My son is a better dancer than me. I always try to encourage him in his endeavours.

We will be looking at things like the confluence of a scene, and we still have all these creative decisions to make. In general, we're going to just try to make these under a half-hour. We're going to try to take that kind of cable TV comedy model.

The TV industry works in this crazy system where everybody's trying to get the same actors at the same time.

Violence has not really been an issue. Even in my wildest hopes, I wasn't trying to get violence in.

It's a shame that the president doesn't embrace the effort to reduce spending. None of us like using situations like the sequester or the debt ceiling or the operation of government to try to engage the president to deal with this.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.