Ed Lee Quotes

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

Melodies are important. I always kind of pride myself on my melodies.

Some people take pictures, I write songs.

There are so many good venues in Chicago.

This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

When you go through life, when you go through different things, you take risks, you question yourself. I think everybody does, at some point in their life, question themselves.

If youve ever lived in Chicago, anyone who has, they know what a winter in Chicago is like. To be going through a tough time here in the winter would be just be all the more worse.

I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.

I'd love to work with Sufjan Stevens. He so gets it. He's amazing.

I don't like to have really any expectations for myself.

I have a pretty wide range of musical tastes.

I have goals that I want to reach, but you can never plan what's going to happen next.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

I know who I am as an artist. I've always known who I am as an artist.

I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

I will always appreciate 'American Idol,' and I never forget about where I come from.

Food in Chicago is the best.

I tried water polo and my horse drowned... that was a nightmare.

Youve got to take advantage of those guys outside. Its frustrating.

I like to remind myself, as a parent, that God holds me responsible to, not for, my children!

I take more to the subject than to my ideas about it. I am not interested in any idea I have had, the subject is so demanding and so important.

The West to me is where the landscape is.

If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.

Its a very good feeling to be around a man who thinks women are juicy.

This is our lives. The way to give it dignity is to tell the truth.

I know what you go through when you learn someone close to you has died.

I don't think I fit the Marilyn Maxwell mode.

When I became a director, I wanted to convince a very reluctant Sidney into allowing me to go on the journey of his life. Sidney had gone ahead of every other African American actor.

I'm pretty much an open book.

The seeds of genius are in many blogs, but bloggers lack the interest in or understanding of the difference between blogging and fully-formed literary efforts.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don't get read.

But in the end our government usually - not unfailingly - is responsive to the people; and usually - not always - will try to do what is right.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Democracy fascinates me.

Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world.

Culture is something that we all share and we are all the poorer for anyone excluded from it.

There’s no comparison. Veganism is the single most important thing that one can do today.

In a way, 'Billy Elliot' was autobiographical. I can't dance, but I think his dancing was me discovering about writing and literature.

From kings to groundlings, Shakespeare made his work profound for everybody. That is how it should be. There is no hierarchy in theatre. It makes everyone part of a collective.

The more you put yourself out there, the more there is for people to take exception with.

Fear of failure and criticism can be crippling. Don't let others' negativity take away your joy.

It's possible to have an awesome life, but it's up to ourselves to do it.

Circuit training consists of doing resistant movements combined with an aerobic activity (jogging in place, jump rope, jumping jacks, etc.).

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.