I'm really proud to be a woman making music. Nothing makes me happier than when other women approach me at shows and say, "You've inspired me to start writing music," or, "I feel like we could be best friends. " Music is a male-dominated business, so it's nice to see bands with girls in them, and not just a bunch of dudes with beards in flannel shirts.
The noblest art is that of making others happy
But parents and schools have their priorities; making sure our kids eat right because research shows a clear connection between nutrition and student performance in school.
There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.
It feels good to rail against what is wrong in the world, to fight the good fight, to beat the drum of making a difference. I am right there with you.
Stop pathetically believing that you deserve fame or fame deserves you. It's yucky, and it's only making you miserable, so stop.
when you are dealing with art, any kind of art, your pleasure in making it is what matters most.
It's always tricky to watch yourself, always. When I first had to watch myself, it was really hard because I'd done quite a few plays and I've never seen myself. So I was professional but I'd never watched myself. So I was like hearing you know. . . I'm sure you guys are all much more familiar with that because everybody has a phone, and everyone's taking pictures of themselves and making movies of themselves. And so people are more accustomed to it now. So I had to get used to it because there's a lot to be learned, of course, as an actor. When you watch yourself, you learn a lot.
I'm very happy with this new record. It's dealing with different aspects of love-it's me making a statement about people doing something with their lives. It is about caring for others.
. . . the same hand that made trees and fields and flowers, the seas and hills, the clouds and sky, has been making a home for us called heaven.
I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.
You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.
Whatever aspect of life you apply it to, making change takes courage.
I'm someone who believes that making things creates wealth.
An unbearable smug look came over his usually impassive face. "Uh-huh. You just keep telling youself that. You looove me. " I took a swing at him, but he jumped back nimbly, and all I did was jar my left arm, making it hurt. He laughed at me, then pointed at the woods ouside the window. "Pick a tree. I'll go carve our initials in it.
With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.
I felt that making records in a traditional way - putting them out in the same way, wasting loads of money - was just a pointless exercise.
But then when you go through the process of making the film and you sit in the cinema two years later and your jaw hits the floor, it's quite sad in a way because you're looking at yourself - facially anyway - and see the way you looked when you were 20.
Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.
For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.