E. J. Gold Quotes

You can never prepare yourself enough to see your mug shot and DUI.

I knew that by getting behind the wheel of the car and having had something to drink, the responsibility laid on my shoulders.

Any actor will tell you, anybody in the public eye, that the tabloids are the worst kind of ramification of being a celebrity.

I am the person who is a mother against drunk driver.

I had a very public battle with anorexia.

I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

You can't enjoy life if you're not nourishing your body.

I'm the most cynical person, and I know what that sounds like when you say, I don't drink and drive, and I don't. But I know people look at that with skepticism, and I understand.

I will never have a drink and get behind the wheel of a car. It's not illegal to drink and drive, but there becomes a certain point where it does become a crime.

I don't believe things happen in vain. I believe they happen for a reason.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

For anyone who has that calling and is trying also to make a living at it, it is really hard.

Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot.

It's funny how everyone has a bizarre relationship with Google. The knowledge is there, but no one knows how to use it right.

It was the highlight of my life being in the Mae West show, because I saw and did things I never had before.

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.

Conformity is inevitable when folks huddle together in rebellion.

Catastrophe and desire are linked in our lives as the moon is linked to that reflected light from the sun which enables the eye to see it.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique opportunities arise.

All I need to do to stay healthy is look at my three boys.

Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

I think the 60s and 70s were the peak period for the singer-songwriter, for sure.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

That's the object of going to a gym, having fun.

I want to move away from sampling records and just have it be quite minimal. I don't want any more hip-hop beats in there.

I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.

Maybe I should disappear and not make anymore music. I mean, I think I'd take it really badly if I got slayed.

I was really into hip-hop as a teenager. I dressed up like Tupac with baggy jeans and a dodgy bandanna around my head. I was pretty confused at that time.

There's just so much stuff that sounds like Flying Lotus now - I really like what he does, but I don't want to be like him. The new stuff is more experimental.

I'm more confident in my music now because people are saying it's good - I'm trying to believe it, but it's very difficult. I don't know if it's going to end in disaster.

I usually find stuff that I hope no one really knows or cares about. If I'm ripping off something that's already brilliant, what's the point?

I have loads of stuff that never came out because I really don't think it's good enough.

I didn't have any intention of releasing any of the tracks I made.

I've always had a problem with authority. I just can't wear a suit - it would kill me.

I got fired once for putting like a packet of biscuits through a fan - I was really bored.

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing.

I'm just really happy to be happy for the first time since I was about 20.

The would-bees take their honey from the flowers of creation.

The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death.

The magic will which makes us see the other side of our natures-dream and disaster, catastrophe and fulfillment-is the great permanent challenge of humanity.

If mankind is naturally good, he is sure going against his nature more and more of the time. It sounds like a bad joke: the paranoids are after us.

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk

Old age is wasted on the elderly: the young know what to do with it-insist on something different.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.