Trying Quotes - Page 572

I just try to take it as it comes. One autograph at a time.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

My whole mindset in training is to be explosive and fast, and I try not to get too big and bulky.

Trying to convey an emotion through words is not easy.

Fate has a way of getting what she wants, no matter how we try to avoid it.

I'm definitely trying to incorporate a Caribbean and reggae element.

I'm not really concerned with trying to turn haters into believers.

I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.

I certainly self-police my language depending on who I'm talking to. I try to be very careful about using filler words, about not drawling certain vowels, even when I can't say "drawl" without drawling. That's kind of sad, because self-policing inhibits communication. You're more focused on the words coming out of your mouth or that should not be coming out of your mouth than making a connection with the person you're speaking to.

Whenever you try and simplify how people speak, it's just hard to squish them into a simple rule. Language doesn't work that way.

I'm not really entertained anymore, everything sounds the same. We have a crisis right now of innovative music. I'm probably the only person left trying to do something different and brand new.

That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself.

Twitter is great to connect with fans and be transparent. I enjoy that aspect about it. But really, I'm still trying to figure it out.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

I usually try to write through pain and end up digging myself into a deeper hole.

I also try to eat as much raw food and clean food as possible.

Yes, it's funny, isn't it? You try to do what's best for the people you love, and you just end up in trouble for your efforts.

I've been lucky to find people who want to work with me, whom I respect and like, but the truth is there aren't that many good projects out there. And we make way, way too many movies. So it's not always going to happen with every project. But I try and wait it out.

I don't try to be sexy, but if you are sexy it comes out. If you're not, you're not.

Art was a last, desperate attempt for me to be able to exist in the world after trying very hard not to exist in the world and realizing that it was just my lot to be a person and to live in the world. See, the normal world dissolves in these experiences, and you realize that it is just an illusion. But, inevitably, I just kept landing back in the middle of it.

My energy is undiminished. Someone said to me the other day, 'Are you retired?' and I said, 'Well, I'm just trying to prove that I'm not.' There's so many things to do.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

I don't apologize to people who try to intimidate.

There's a vulnerability in music but you've also got to protect your sacred place and have a place you can still retire to that no one else knows about. So that's a thing I just try to balance.

Just try to keep the heart turned outward, as well as having moments inward.