I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.
Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Why would you be realistic? What's the point of being realistic? I'm going to do it. It's done. It's already done. The second I decide it's done, it's already done.
I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself.
The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very complete: a hope which seems close to being realised.
When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.
Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.
I wasn't trying to make a following. I was just trying to make interesting music. That's not being modest, that's just being realistic.
If there's one thing worse than being really angry for no reason, it's suddenly remembering the reason.
For me songwriting is very. . . it's almost like an accident. 'Oh I accidentally wrote about that. ' I sit down with the urge to write a song and then afterward it turns out being really personal. I get really overwhelmed by how I feel a lot and sometimes - I feel like my body and my brain can't deal with all the different emotions and I feel like I'm just going to explode.
But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who commit to moving forward their own individual and personal evolution by embracing and demonstrating behaviors that serve to awaken the species to who and what human beings really are Individuations of Divinity, and how that may be made manifest in our experience.
It seems to me, that's the only thing that ends up being really fulfilling or satisfying - your career.
I don't want to dream anymore, I want my life to be real!
Let's be real: It's just TV; it's just entertainment
I'm not perfect. But I'll always be real
It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.
I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.
You know, I used to be made fun of as a kid for being really articulate; it was sort of like a strange thing.
Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB.
Scary is good. Kids like going to a movie and being really scared rather than fake scared.