I'm not really a director or producer for hire. There's lots of big gigs out there, but I'm not looking to do that. Usually, when I'm directing or producing, I've written it myself. I'm not really trying to get on some big horse that's running through town. I just make my own stuff.
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.
When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.
Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
I've been walking to school and trying to figure out what's going on there; some of the production and songs are so ridiculous. I want to get inside that.
Im a B-list celebrity trying to give it an honest look. They see me do actual work. ... I try to be the viewer with a microphone.
For me, my faith informs my life. I try and spend a little time on my knees every day. But it all for me begins with cherishing the dignity, the worth, the value of every human life.
I'm just trying to age as ungracefully as I can in front of the nation.
Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
You should really try to live your childhood when you’re a child, because if you do it when you’re 26, it can be dangerous.
I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience. When you're meeting somebody for the first time, all you have to go on are your preconceptions and your stereotypes and whatever else, but gradually as you get to know them, they change. They become more three-dimensional, and you start to see them in layers.
You ought to try being cruel to some people.
I understand all the problems for the Ministry of Defence, of course I do; working within a budget and trying to do so many things is not easy.
When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.
Actually, it's great to play with someone who tries to come up with interesting drum beats because it pushes the music in different directions.
'I thought I could live my life without you,' she says, trying desperately to hold back her tears. 'I can't. I've tried and I can't do it.'
Terrorists have already attacked our Nation once. There is every reason to believe that they will try again - possibly with a weapon of mass destruction; a weapon that could be smuggled into our ports.
You make sure that there's a structure that's interesting for them to play on top of, then do temp versions and try it on the film. By the time the players come to the recording session, I've found what works. So I'm not wasting their time.
It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.
I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.
If Congress were to censure, fine or otherwise try to punish a president, it would dramatically alter the balance of power between the branches.
I try to stay in the positive. In the now.
I try to stay incognito as much as I can. I don't go places that people would expect to see me because I'm trying to lay low.
That's how it works in Westerns: the hero is minding his own business and trying to make a living, but he does something, the villain finds out about it and they have to have a showdown. So it's kind of a Western set to hip hop music.
