Matt Quotes
I love to musicalize things. You do employ a whole level of gravity. You use the emotional heft of music.
I have but one life to give to adventure. " Alexander Eliot -" Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
The fact that Eddie Vedder likes to play 3 hour plus shows a night, I have to be ready for that.
And there's a visceral fun in watching Team America and making it, like taking a puppet and throwing it against the wall. Because it's not CG, there's something funny about it.
Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that.
My parents raised me right, so I always open doors for people and try to have good manners.
I think it's really important these days to be able to relate to how the music flows and be able to speak the same language as your bandmates and the producer, rather than just talking drums.
In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
For me, I just try to make sure I eat enough and drink enough water and that's about it.
When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?
When I first went on tour with PJ in '98, I was still in shock having gone through the Soundgarden break up.
Have compassion towards each other, including animals. Love and respect every living being on this planet - a key factor to a greater society.
I think with the live shows it's giving you that opportunity to do something on stage that you don't normally do.
The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.
A person with grace is somebody who's socially graceful or is a classy person, but sometimes you just feel the opposite of that, and you just feel like a jerk and a loser and a weirdo.
Music has got a community vibe to it that pulls people together, and those communities are different in different places.
I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.
If you are making smart decisions and doing the right things in the correct order and dedicating yourself to something, the success is inevitable.
LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.
I found the source of global warming is coming from the hot air coming out of Washington.
You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.
I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.
My palette contains a warm and cool of each primary, plus four modifiers: Yellow Ochre, Burnt Sienna, Blue-Violet and Phthalo Yellow-Green just mix as I go for each painting.
When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.
I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.
There's so much to be said for making your guitar sound like a synthesizer and try to make your drummer sound like a drum machine.
Actors, movie stars, rock stars, I can meet them with no worries - but with footballers I go weak at the knees. All of them.
I think you can hear the struggles and hear a realness in Theocracy songs, a human element that you don't get from a lot of the typical Christian stuff.
When I'm painting outdoors, I only have time to think about what I'm saying, not how I'm saying it.
We’ve been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we’ll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
If you have an outstanding product, world class content, or something else that sets you apart, then you can step back and start thinking about how to promote it.
If you're a beast in the pulpit but a coward in your neighborhood, something has gone wrong.
If the worst that happens is that I wake up and see a picture of myself and a headline saying, 'He wasn't very funny last night', then I've got nothing to complain about.
I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don't, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
I'm not hugely technical with things, but I guess that the thing I use most is my iPhone, on a practical level.
As an actor, you'll have ten parts in 2015 - eight of them will go to the other actors above you and two of them you might be close to, and you try to make them as good as you can.
Even now, I'm very superstitious, in silly ways. I always put my left boot on first. Or on set, I always tie my bow tie from right to left.