Evan Quotes

I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

See, to me, rock'n'roll doesn't have any point. It's just fun. It has a million different angles and they're all valid. But I think rock might be a world issue.

I know so many songs. I'm like a walking karaoke torture machine.

Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?

It's better when you have your wife with you, more fun.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

I have to make rock records occasionally.

I get to see the world and try to make people happy. I'm very much of a wandering spirit, if you'll pardon the expression.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

Basically, between 1989 and 1994, I hadn't taken a vacation.

Some of our stuff ends up looking too corporate. I'm going to be a lot stricter from now on.

The best songs I write in 20 minutes.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

You know more about me than I do about myself, that's probably true.

For me, it's all about The Dubliners by James Joyce. I love The Dead.

Since Elizabeth, I certainly live a healthier lifestyle.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

No one prepared me for the stress and insanity of a week leading up to a movie. Years and years of work come down to three days.

I love intricate plotting and exciting twists, but I realize more that people enjoy a good story in a simple, focused way.

I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

The truth is, there are probably eight more Snow White scripts floating around out there. And once one Snow White script got hot, other people started pulling out their Snow White scripts.

Historically, the British have always been rather wary of grand engineering projects - perhaps understandably, given that many of them have been delivered late and over budget.

The key thing about me is that I'm really not very interesting.

One of the key problems is that the Germans know what they do because everywhere they go there's a 'made in Germany' label on it - they can feel proud of Volkswagens and Audis and Mercedes.

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on.

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

Personally, I'd like us to have a few more women on the 'Today' programme.

The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'

At the BBC we've had plenty of women in good management jobs. It comes and goes but there's been plenty. On air, I think there's quite a bit more we can do.

Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology.

I swing both ways. I can see things from a kind of conservative point of view and from a more socially liberal or left-wing point of view.

We escaped the last big bursting of a bubble - the dotcom bubble - with a relatively light U.S. recession. On that occasion, the world economy found its way back on track fairly quickly.

I actually profoundly think the world's a better place when economics is fairly boring... The more boring the better.

My instinct is to assume that we consumers are an inconsistent bunch. We like competition if it delivers low prices, but grumble if it delivers the bad news that prices need to go up.

For me, the main principle for broadcasters has to be that if people stand to benefit from an interview, they should be prepared to face some downside as well.

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.

Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.

Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.

Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.

Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.