A. W. Pink Quotes
Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.
I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path.
I was definitely a thespian of sorts in elementary school. I went to a real small private school and every year I participated in the talent shows and the school plays, all of 'em.
I love having the impulsivity to change course. I think it's key to keeping things fresh.
I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.
At 35, I'm thinking, Oh, I don't have any of that initial inspiration that I had before, all that angst. I always thought I would burn out very quickly.
I'm always gonna be in opposition no matter what, but I can still cover my bases and do what I like.
The world is full of bands and bullshit, and if I'm doing a stupid art project like rock 'n' roll then I want to spare my audience as much as possible.
I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.
The music usually occurs to me as a complete sound, and then I have developed the skill of being able to translate that into a fully realized song.
I hate not understanding the words, because it kind of squashes the song. It shrinks the visual landscape that you've made for the sounds. And, all of a sudden, the content eclipses things.
It was not designed for me to be 35 and still doing the same thing. But in another sense, it's like I've had an extended adolescence. It helps that I look young, too.
For me, self-gratification eventually took a backseat to trying to do something collaborative with other people, to trying to make something new.
I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.
Talk about a struggling artist having to work against enormous odds ... But I love movies so much, so I'm going to do it.
I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.
During those formative times, I really didn't know what was going on, and I was sort of torn in a thousand different directions with how I felt about what I was doing.
I knew what I wanted to do, which was to become a recording artist, so I definitely felt like I had a calling. The performing part was the part that I wasn't sure about.
When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey.
That's really what keeps me playing live - appreciation. And I guess I've made a lot of wiggle room for myself to try different things and discover what I'm doing, and the audience accepts it.
I remember being very psyched for our first tours, despite not knowing about the endless stream of situations and setbacks that we'd face.
As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.
Everything comes with hard work. You never get to stop working. I don't see myself ever getting comfortable enough to not have to worry about working.
You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.
I definitely don't feel a sense of jealousy or competition, and that's a really good feeling.
If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.
From day one, I was already famous in my own head. It didn't take anything to make me feel that way. I know I'm totally not famous. I mean, it just depends on your perspective.
I backed up all my pictures on my iCloud so you can’t see me when I die / I left my body somewhere down in Mexico / Give ‘Find My iPhone’ app a try.
I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.
Especially for fostering creative, conceptual work, the best way to use money as a motivator is to take the issue of money off the table so people concentrate on the work.
There's an idea out there that salespeople have actually been obliterated by the Internet, which is just not supported by the facts.
Tens of millions of people have iPods, whereas eight years ago, they didn't know they were missing them.
Create some psychological space between you and your project by imagining you're doing it for someone else or contemplating what advice you'd give to another person in your predicament.
"Mad" magazine is like one of my few formative experiences, absolutely. "Mad" magazine teaches a whole generation of people to be irreverent toward power.
If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
In economic terms, we've always thought of work as a disutility - as something you do to get something else. Now it's increasingly a utility - something that's valuable and worthy in its own right.
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.
