Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
When you idolise someone, or you hold someone in such high regard, you just want them to be everything that you think there are - and when they are it's just lovely.
I don't want anything given to me.
In the story shoes are just a metaphor for what these girls go through...the grass is always greener and everyone always wants to be in somebody else's shoes; they don't want to be in their own.
People just want honest music.
Our problem with desire is that we want too little.
I think God wants us to love Him more, not to love others less.
Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.
I'm definitely not very insecure, but I have perfectionist tendencies, and I'll want things to be a certain way.
Do you want to know what you are? You are a creator. At every moment you are creating. The real question is, what are you creating?
I didn't really want to give up music.
I want to be able to experience everything. I want to experience being a husband, experience being a father, experience, maybe, hopefully, someday being a grandfather, and all those things. I want that experience. When I die, I want to be exhausted.
Somehow proper prayer must put more trust in God’s will than in human wants; otherwise failure to get the things we want will force us to doubt either the power of prayer or the ability of God.
I've always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That's just how I am and it's worked for me.
People want to give back. People want to do good
You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified.
I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.
I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.
I'm not a diva. I know what I like and I know what I want.
I learned from my parents the idea that, if you are devoted enough and you want to study something enough, you can really teach yourself anything.
My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.
Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.
If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.
Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.
