Adam Quotes

My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.

I'm proud of my sexuality. I embrace it. It's just another part of me.

There's no regrets for me.

The biggest risk I've ever taken is going on American Idol and trying to be myself. I wasn't going to try too hard to conform, and I knew that it could possibly not work out.

I'm so happy to be in a committed relationship.

Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.

The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick up a brush and stand in front of our own easel.

I wanted the focus to be on my ability as a singer and as an entertainer - not on my private life.

Carving out an identity for yourself is important so I'm trying to do that as well.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

If we keep bombing other people, that creates more anger. Tensions keep escalating.

Through theater and acting school, I found a way to articulate myself.

I think it's possible to be free in a big production. It's the eye of the director and the actor and the story.

It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.

Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.

I think that the job of art and culture is to jump on that time and realize that it's there and to push it just a little bit faster.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

I grew up cursing a lot.

Negative relationships are unpleasant but predictable.

I spy, with my little eye, something that starts with ... G." "Sausages.

Protein was the most valued ingredient 250 years ago: It was the rarest thing. Now the rarest thing we have is time: time to cook and time to eat.

Whittle was an amazing chap. Tiny, stubborn, unstoppable - jet-propelled! It's amazing the impact his invention has had upon the world.

United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.

Sometimes when I'm directing, the stage manager will have a good idea and that's okay with me.

I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write.

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

There was a little element of feeling like a cow.

I'm confused. Really, really confused.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

I would hope that the staffs at juvenile detention centers and reform schools are carefully chosen so that there is a community of support and hope.

We [ with Andy Samberg] knew each other for the last few years, our names are similar, our looks are a little bit similar, and our backgrounds are similar. The Judaism is quite similar.

What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.

My intention is never to hurt anybody. I'm happy when people are having a good time.

I have patterned myself after my father and God.

Scientists and artists are both living in the cultural milieu that they come up in. They're always responding to what is happening culturally.

The way superheroes dominate the fictional landscape now, along with dystopian futures and zombies. Yeah, definitely - I think these stories function as a kind of mythology for us.

I love to believe that there's one god but there's many different religions so there's just the question of which long distance company you pick.

I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

All my songs are where I am.

I like being infamous. I think it is safe being a cult.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart.

I'm a studio guy. That's really what I love the most. I'm so fascinated with audio gear and recording techniques and whatnot, it's pretty mesmerizing.

Things flow better and everyone is in a better mood because they're like, 'I got my point across and it sounds like I want it to sound'

Tie my handlebars to the stars so I stay on track & if my intentions stray I'll wrench them away,then I'll take my leave & I won't even look back

Ladies, your happiness is very important to us. You have to understand that. Because when you're happy, you let us touch you.

One day in the shower, you figure it out. It's a special day in a man's life. I was like, 'Oh, I found me a hobby.'

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.