J. P. Blake Quotes

College. I didn't even realize it was carefree at the time, but looking back, that was the most carefree time ever.

If you read a label and just look up the ingredients, you'll be able to figure out really easily what's good for you and what's bad.

I don't tan on my upper thighs, so when I first wore those [ cut-off jean short shorts] I look like I was walking on two cans of milk.

I took music theory in high school and dropped out halfway through the semester because it was ruining music for me.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

I think it's safe to say that 50% of the record buying metal community is people between the ages of 16 and 25 - people still in their teenage-angsty, early young-adult years.

As convenient as that would be to make it easier to communicate with more prolific musicians, I don't want to think of music like a math equation.

Some people are really into being music-minded and knowing all their scales and how to read music and speak the language.

I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician.

It's been nice to have a band and people I'm close to that I can get that understanding from and help me realize what I want to do in my life as a musician.

When you're not putting a bunch of chemicals into everbody, people tend not to fly off the handle.

I got really tired of metal music. How do you pick what's good to sell when you're not totally into what you're listening to and marketing?

You can have the coolest job in the world, but it only seems cool until you get sick of it.

I like just having that separation between my music life and my personal life.

Hate walks hand in hand with hate, and black metal especially is a genre that is full of white power bands.

We live with the things that we do to ourselves and others in doing what we've done to ourselves.

If you don't take risks in life, you'll never see anything new.

I get scared because I regard women as the most beautiful creatures in the world.

The judges say, make it your own, so I just remixed a song if I felt like the piece needed it

I've tried to stay true to myself this whole entire time, and I think I've represented myself as creatively as I could with what I got on the show.

Some say silence is golden, I choose noise!

You ever see a poptart do the moonwalk? Magic

I never think about how other people will respond to the way I dress.

Election made me more aware, more conscious, more sensitive. Not just of sexism but of discrimination in all areas - class, gender, race. I had realized that there were problems .

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

You could spend your life trying to uncover all the treasures in New Orleans and not even scratch the surface. It's such an amazing place.

I think if you're going to get a tattoo, it should be significant, especially when it's all the way up your arms and your body.

I think for a lot of people, acting becomes a lifestyle, especially when you're living in Los Angeles.

I didn't have an agent. I would just write down that I was with my brother's agency, and then the agency would get calls and say that they had no idea who I was.

I have a big family and no one ever treated me like a child. They always treated me like an adult, like an equal.

I've never worked with an acting coach, but my parents had acting classes and I grew up around them my whole life just because I didn't have a babysitter.

I feel like all I've done lately is play really sexually-charged drug addicts. I don't know what's wrong with me. I've gotta go to Disneyland more and get more excitement.

I actually think that craft service was the reason I got into acting: the free food. I literally remember on my first job being like, "Yes! I get to have craft service every day!"

Ive always had a fascination about mixing music. So I downloaded an application and started messing around with it, and it just built up from there.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

You'll never see me in a true New York raincoat, although I own one. You'll never see me wear rainboots. I guess I'm just not a rain person.

I've always had a fascination about mixing music.

A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers and opens doors.

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

When you're buying a pair of TOMS, if you don't feel like you're part of a community, then I've failed.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, [...] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else's.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

TOMS didn't have to focus on advertising, but on giving in a way that's sustainable.

When you don't know the rules, you break them all. It's hard to take big risks when you know the history of an industry and what has worked and what didn't.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

[People] had never heard about someone giving something away every time they sold something.