J.D. Young Quotes

The punches came fast and hard, lying on my back in the school yard.

You're as close to heaven as I'll ever be.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Down by the river, I shot my baby dead.

The same thing that makes you live can kill you in the end.

Love is a healer and I love you.

Southern man better keep your head, don't forget what your good book says.

If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

I never knew a man could tell so many lies, he had a different story for every set of eyes. How can he remember who he's talking to?

Wooden ships are a hippie dream, capsized in excess if you know what I mean.

You're all just pissing in the wind. You don't know it, but you are.

I need a new unit to sample and hold, but not an angry one, a new design, new design.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

I watched the needle take another man.

I get into each thing I do, to the point where nothing else matters. I guess I'm an extremist.

Government can't completely take care of people by making a bunch of promises and programs. Organize your communities

A job is never truly finished. It just reaches a stage where it can be left on its own for a while.

My career is built around a pattern that just keeps repeating itself over and over again. There's nothing surprising about it at all. My changes are as easy to predict as the sun coming up and down.

With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life.

We need to spread out now in the universe. I think in 100 years we'll be living on other planets.

Music lovers always want to hear the best. It's about freedom of choice, we supply the music.

That's a defining moment, there, when someone plays an instrument that everyone relates to around the planet.

An idea discovered is much better possessed.

The person who still blushes is not yet a degenerate.

On one side the government, the other side the mob.

Got to fight to control the violent side, every day and night.

I ran into the preacher, said God was on my side, then I ran into the hangman.

It's kindness that helps people cope with a crisis.

I'm incredibly grateful for the time I spent with STOMP and even more so for the skills and awareness I developed as a performer during that time.

Finding myself a nice and likeable character is a complete change.

What the people of the world want most and have always wanted is bread and peace.

I just consider myself lucky that I've been a musician this long and not had to find another job.

I always wanted to be able to buy nice things, but the appeal of music was the escapism.

I don't indulge in anything extravagant but I can't keep money in the bank.

I work and work and if I have a surplus I book a holiday.

You have to be entrepreneurial and use your name.

I don't see a future in music unless you are one of the 5pc of massive artists.

In the Eighties, live work had to be very extravagant.

I led a sheltered life. I didn't know how to book a flight.

My dad was very worried that I wasn't saving and didn't have a pension. I've never invested well.

If something great comes off with the potential TV series, I will go straight to an investor this time and put my money in whatever they invest in.

The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.

Right now in my middle years, I'm getting to enjoy a resurgence of my own creativity, which I'm fully embracing and enjoying.

There's always something that happens where I go, 'Oh, that was so awkward!'

Just accepting that vulnerability is part of the deal, I think, makes that part okay.

Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.

Save the children of the World from their acidic lifestyles and diets and their acidic parents who are feeding them.

The Red Comyns had always done well behind the throne. The king was but an instrument, as his father used to say. They were the musicians.

When you're not confident as a young woman in saying "no" or even saying "yes" necessarily, you don't know which one you're more afraid of in some way. That happens a lot.

I don't like to talk about things until I'm on set shooting them because it doesn't feel real.