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A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

If you want to grow, find men who provoke you.

Everyone has expectations. You just don't want to have them dashed, so you're quiet about them.

I want to date someone who likes who I am as a person and not what I do for a living.

It's a weird curse, when you think about it. We're built for thought, and civilization, more than any other creature we've found. And all we really want to be is killers.

My show is an anti-show and the audience have to want to listen. I'm sitting down, there's only one of me, I don't talk much to the audience and it is very quiet. I wouldn't be able to do that kind of show if people didn't know me and my material.

If you want to lose weight, whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil.

When you're playing a character, you don't really want to have an opinion about where you're going to end up. Otherwise, you can't really stay in the moment and in your character.

If you have a great message but no great way to entertain, people won't want to hear it.

I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

We want more than there is.

No matter how much you want to be self-sufficient and alone, there is a natural human impulse to need something more than that.

And in the minds of progressives you are free to live anyway you want so long as it's progressive.

There's a lot of good people out here that want to help you grow and to help the music to continue to grow and evolve and go find those folks and be around them and carry it on... carrying the tradition on in the way with what it is that you have to offer. Find some good people in the music that will believe in you and they'll help you do that.

I thought the world had actually ended. I thought nothing good could ever happen again. I thought anything might happen if I wasn't vigilant. I didn't eat. I didn't go out. I didn't want to see anyone. But I survived, Paul. Much to my own surprise, I got through it. And life...well, gradually became livable again.

People want to believe you are sincerely interested in them as a person, not just what they can do for you.

If I did only what I wanted to do, I would not be obedient to the Creator. Sometimes He wants us to do certain things that we may not feel like doing. When it comes to what God asks of us, we need more than good intentions we need to follow through fully.

When I was young, I loved movies so much I wanted to make one.

Nothing suits worse with vice than want of sense

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

What happened under communism - and increasingly, is happening in America, as Joseph Sobran put it: 'Need' now means wanting someone else's money. 'Greed' means wanting to keep your own. 'Compassion' is when a politician arranges the transfer.'

In uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Playing is much, much harder than composing in my opinion, becoming a player. If you want to be a player for all your life either you decide not to do it professionally and just enjoy it and just do it every weekend, but if you want to be a professional musician- hardest thing I could imagine and I really wasn't capable of doing it.