J. M. Barker Quotes

Nothing is true unless it works. And it has to work for you, not for someone else.

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted.

I'm super serious about that stuff. I mean, it's rare that I sit down at a drum set when I'm not touring, because we tour so much.

Do fewer things and do them well. Focus on the things only you can do. Do the important things which must be done now.

I'm proud to be an atheist - it helps me stand for so much more and fall for so much less.

But really, anytime, I play on a practice pad as much as I can.

We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

But there's actually a lot of punk bands out there that go out of the norm, use odd time signatures, or a lot of different tempo changes in a song.

It's the hardest thing in the world to go on being aware of someone else's pain.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

I love tour, but I don't like traveling at night or driving long hours. But I love touring. If my kids could be out there full time, I'd probably never go home.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.

All I ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.

I, Woman, am that wonder-breathing rose That blossoms in the garden of the King.

How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost ?

Playing my drums is therapy.

There is no death where the inner light shines, irradiating the fields of the within -- the beyond -- the unattainable attainment. You know where to find me.

I practice every day, I warm up before I play.

We are here to do a great work because the mind that created us knew what it wanted us to do when it created us.

I was high on life but eventually I built up a tolerance.

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love

You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

I believe that if you go on a date and get to second base and then you go home alone and rub one out, that's like runs batted in.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights

We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what's going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.

Eternity is a circle, a serpent that swallows its own tail.

I'd advise you to visit New Orleans before you pass away. I really would. Because if you die without seeing New Orleans, you wasted half your life.

When I put out to sea, I do not offer advice to the skipper about the management of the ship.

Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.

I don't like sympathetic characters.

I'm not interested in observed reality.

I submit all my plays to the National Theatre for rejection. To assure myself I am seeing clearly.

Even though photographers are only shooting the outside, beauty is more about who you are as a person - the life you lead - not your facade.

You know you're walking around with a mask on, and you desperately want to take it off and you can't because everybody else thinks it's your face.

I have lived in Norfolk all my life. It inspires me, the sea, the limitless skies, the mud and the burning sunsets and the freedom of a place where more than 50% of the neighbours are fish.

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

In junior high, I sang in madrigals, men's' and women's' choir. I played piano too, but then I got out of it.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, its the best job in the world.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.