J. R. Martinez Quotes

I have a few songs that I'm figuring out and writing. I'm still figuring out the whole concept and how it's gonna connect to Cry Baby, but I have some ideas, yes.

Cry Baby is just a character in this world that I'm trying to create, and the music videos are really important to me, and I've fought to obviously get all of them approved.

I know so few people who actually give music their undivided attention, so I've been trying to just park myself on the couch between the speakers and listen.

It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone.

It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.

After you date a player or two it's nice to just chill with a guy that can keep it basic.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

Every weekend we've been trying to go out of town, to let people know about this album. I've been trying to host parties. It's hard, because it's a lot of work to do both.

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.

I understand business and understand the ugly face of baseball, which is the business part of baseball.

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

I love what I do because I get to talk to the people who change the game: the influencers, visionaries who make things happen in music and culture. That's inspiring to me.

Go with the flow, but pray God keeps you afloat.

I definitely love horror movies and all that for sure.

If I don't see a music video to it while writing it, I just scrap it immediately. It's very visual.

I don't really think about what people think of my music, and how they listen to it or what my demographic is.

So like what I want to do is connect all of my albums and make it tell a bigger kind of story. So the first album is very focused on her family life and her love life.

Even if the song meant a lot to me, I would still probably perform it live.

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.

I'm thankful for not ever taking anything illegal.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

I like the challenge. I do not like the attention.

They're going to need a DNA test to identify him after the fight (Chavez Jr.)

Julio Cesar Chavez will never be ready to fight me.

So I'm not wrong when I said you are a puppet? That you have no voice or choice in deciding?

They criticize because they don't have a life. It's easy to criticize another person.

I know by the way the punch landed, he wouldn't get up.

When I first started writing the album, "Cry Baby" was a song that I really wanted to write because it represented all of these personal insecurities that I had for a long time.

How YOU see yourself - not anyone else - is the thing that defines you.

When I was younger I used to be really into photography, and I still am, I just don't really get to do it besides taking my own artists photos and stuff like that.

We have to remember that no matter how much hardship we go through in our life, there is always going to be that fragile place in our heart.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professional for 12 years. We're from a big family of boxers. My father has seven brothers.

I get a lot of kids distracted. Sometimes they got to go cover left field, but they're over here talking to me, getting an autograph.

My first ball I ever got from a big-league player I actually got to purchase in Dodger Stadium in a silent auction, was Reggie Jackson.

Before, if I wasn't in baseball, I wanted to become a doctor.

In the middle of nowhere, along a quiet stretch of road, the diner dreamt of the hungry dead. And of two men.

It's amazing what you can accomplish when you really strive to be better.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

Actually the adrenaline of the game will probably help me out a little bit to regain command and concentration about the things that I have to do.

My brother never got an opportunity to throw a pitch, and I didn't want the same thing to happen to another young kid.

I love my teammates, and I'll do anything for them.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us, don't take us for granted!

Being Latina for me is also being a strong woman.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

I was in the Chilli Peppers at the time and I asked myself, would I be able to wear a sock on my genitals at the age of forty and they proved me wrong because I guess they're still doing it.