Nick Quotes

I never really followed the traditional route when it comes to what people probably expect as a solo artist goes, but that's just me. It's my own creative output and it's my expression.

I try to be bad, but nobody will let me.

Real men change diapers!

Let it all out. If only I could. Letting it all out would involve me exploding like a firework, a beautiful riot of rainbow sparks bouncing around the car and lighting up the entire lot.

If you love math, have a knack for numbers, study hard and become a successful accountant; who cares if you can't draw a straight line or sing on key?

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

There are some problems that technology can't solve.

You can't be patient if you're not strong.

You cannot separate art from life or spirituality. They are bound together in a single unit.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

We are telling veterans they must sacrifice to pay for the pet projects and contracts to campaign donors of powerful members of Congress.

Having haters is just a part of the business, and the more haters you have, the more people like you - that's how I view it, because I try to see the positive in things.

Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for treaty change is as political as it is legal and I don't think it's going to happen soon.

Elvis Costello had a brand new bag. He was a musician, but he knew all about the attitude part of it.

I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

Saturday morning, you knew what was cool by what was on 'Soul Train.'

Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows

You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

I don't do stunts and I don't think many actors do. For an actor to say they do their own stunts I don't think is very respectful of the profession of stunt men and women.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

We are the world. We are the people and we deserve better not because we're worth it but because no worth can be put on the incalculable, on the infinite, on life.

I was on a founding members of the Canadian theatre movement in the late 60's till the mid 70's and performed theatre from Halifax to Vancouver and all places in between.

At root fame is a sham. I'm not going to live forever and if I am I certainly need don't you to tell me that so that I will buy a car or a box of dried up crackers.

There's no greater purpose than service to others.

I run around in circles, professionally.

If anything, more kids that want to get good at golf will get fine-tuned. It's factual. It's science, how to build a golfer. I think that's huge.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

If you want to play better, you have to eat better, you have to look out for yourself.

Johnny Depp is, to me, a rare kindred spirit with like sensibilities, who has escaped the beast. He's probably one of the few people that have survived Los Angeles as a human being.

You are what you wear.

I'd like to thank the press from the heart of my bottom.

I'm an extremely slow worker, very unprolific. It can take me weeks to do a three-minute song, or at least to make it sound, in my mind, like I haven't written it. That's when I'm satisfied.

If the world thinks you're not good enough, it's a lie, you know. Get a second opinion.

There's no point in being complete on the outside when you're broken in the inside.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

As I listened, it occurred to me that interest in and affection for the animals that share the planet with us may be a more unifying force than any other.

I don't really mind playing tabloid monster. I always liked those characters in the old movies.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.

I love the sound of breaking glass Especially when Im lonely I need the noises of destruction When theres nothing new.

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

If you do have limitations, then you have to find out what they are. And if you find out what they are and avoid them, then they aren't limiting anymore.

I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!