Power's footstool is opinion and his throne the human heart.
All my friends were going off to be professionals, and I said I wanted to be an actor.
Work hard and figure out how to be useful and don't try to imitate anybody else's success. Figure out how to do it for yourself with yourself.
'May the Force be with you' is charming but it's not important. What's important is that you become the Force - for yourself and perhaps for other people.
I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
If you're going to define me properly, you must think in terms of my failures as well as my successes.
I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.
No one can beat Momma. She made me the person I am today. The way I think and act and move and talk and speak. It's all because of her.
People die all the time. It's just that you're not around.