J.C. Spencer Quotes

Everyone has their thing, and I was the weird, artsy kid.

I have more fun, and enjoy more finan­cial suc­cess, when I stop try­ing to get what I want and start help­ing other peo­ple get what they want.

If you don't change, you will become extinct.

I don't read liner notes and stuff, and I don't read articles very often.

MySpace is such a weird world to me. I don't have a MySpace account. The stuff that's up there, I didn't set any of it up. Fans set it up.

I record to my heart's content whatever I feel like.

I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it.

I've recorded a lot of vocals so far and I think they're kinda still in my own world, but I do have that urge sometimes. You want to push yourself to do other things.

I'm trying not to delve into my world of abstraction and self-indulgence. But I haven't. When I sit down and I try not to [be abstract], it comes out really forced and awkward.

If it's a good record or a good recording, then word of mouth will build for that reason, not before the fact, not before anyone's heard it, not because of MySpace or the label.

I like the idea of quietly putting music out there and seeing what it does for itself, to let it take it's own life and see if people respond to it, simply because of what it is.

I don't have a dayjob or anything. And then, winter's [makes it] hard to do anything.

I like things to be a little bit absurd. But I don't really like playing covers.

There are more people with cell phones in the world than any other thing on the planet. There are billions of cell phones. There's not not billions of radios.

Heidi [Montag]'s a far more talented artist. Personally, I think Lady Gaga is repulsive and classless.

I got a nice nine-month vacation living on the beach collecting sand dollars, and I really got to reflect and realize that in entertainment, you can definitely go too far.

I don't care about the clubs, I don't care about the radio, all I care about is getting my digital downloads.

Besides Gucci, and Juiceman, I'm not really excited about anybody in the game. I just love Gucci and Juice because they just have too much swag that they don't know what to do with themselves.

We made and spent at least 10 million dollars. The thing is, we heard that the planet was going to end in 2012. We thought, We have got to spend this money before the asteroid hits.

I'm not really interested in anybody, that's why I started rapping. I'm still a fan of Tupac. That's the only rapper that I'm still like, "Oh! Tupac!"

There's no way my love for fame and her love for puppies will ever work out successfully.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

Homes-the very idea of homeownership-evoke a strong emotional reaction in all of us.

Home: The place to save society.

Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.

Every Latter-day Saint should sustain, honor, and obey the constitutional law of the land in which he lives.

What are we to fear when the Lord is with us? Can we not take the Lord at his word and exercise a particle of faith in him?

Modern idols or false gods can take such forms as clothes, homes, businesses, machines, automobiles, pleasure boats, and numerous other material deflectors.

Young men do not usually become inactive in the Church because they are given too many significant things to do.

The time will come when only those who believe deeply and actively in the family will be able to preserve their families in the midst of the gathering evil around us.

Any excuse for non-performance, no matter how valid, weakens character.

People must be changed...goodness cannot be legislated.

We can make our houses homes and our homes heavens.

Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.

Peace of mind, joy and happiness cannot be purchased with money or worldly goods.

When one becomes conscious of his great humility, he has already lost it. When one begins boasting of his humility, it has already become pride-the antithesis of humility.

O timid one, awaken, exert yourself, draw back the curtains your training and background have hung over the windows of your soul.

Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all the decisions and has the most far reaching effects.

To be mediocre, when only application and diligence would have netted superiority, is an error akin to sin.

To hold a testimony, one must bear it often and live worthy of it.

I believe in goals, but I believe that the individual should set his own. Goal setting should cause us to stretch as we make our way.

Sin is the result of deep and unmet needs.

We are, on the whole, an idolatrous people...

If men are really humble, they will realize that they discover, but do not create, truth.

Man can be literally transformed by his own repentance and by God's gift of forgiveness.

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

We need to help those we seek to serve, to know for themselves that God not only loves them, but He is ever mindful of them and of their needs.

Now we ask you to clean up your homes we urge each of you to dress and keep in a beautiful state the property that is in your hands.

We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

The more we are guided by eternal considerations in our conduct, the better we will manage our mortality.