R. W. Apple Quotes

I've always said I don't want to have kids. I don't want a kid at all, but I do like reverse-engineering myself; managing and parenting myself.

I don't have a big thing about leaving my mark or being historic.

I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

If there was a better way to go then it would find me I can't help it, the road just rolls out behind me Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

The truth is it's fun to be up there and know that you're in your underwear. Even though I know I'm exploiting my sexuality in a certain way, it's fun! It boosts my ego.

I still don't know how to drive. I don't go anywhere, really. My brother drives me. I walk around my neighborhood but I don't go anywhere, nor do I want to.

I want to move back to the East Coast. I like Venice, but L.A. is ugly. I would kill myself if I had to look out the window and see some places in L.A. every day.

I think I'm better at live shows than I used to be because I'm way more comfortable with the uncomfortable pauses between songs.

If I had a kid, and I had a choice between teaching somebody how to avoid trouble, or teaching them how to get out of it, I'd teach them how to get out of it.

Be kind to me, or treat me mean I'll make the most of it, I'm an extraordinary machine

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

I know what my job is: I write the songs, I sing them, I play them on the piano

I'm not used to not having enough time to live with the songs. Usually, if I write something, I live with it for a little while.

I also just accept that I might never want to write a song again.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

I caved in to what people wanted me to do. I thought that they weren't going to like me if I didn't.

My derring-do allows me to dance the rigadoon around you but by the time I'm close to you I lose my desideratum.

For a while after the rape, I was afraid of my own sexuality, because I got raped right about the time when I started developing physically.

My whole life, people have been saying, "Why are you so angry?"

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

Love is a hell you cannot bear.

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest

In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.

There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.

I was never somebody who grew up going, 'I really want to be a singer in a band,' and I never had any ambition toward anything, really.

I think that, y'know, they seem to really love music, which means they'll stick with it. I think that Hanson could be really good in a few years, actually!

I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

Everybody acts like I'm nuts. I'm not nuts I just want to feel it all.

I'm not the Queen. I'm not a huge superstar; I don't get paparazzi around me.

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.

I have never bought myself a computer or a phone, but guys in my life have bought them for me, for whatever reason. So now I have them.

I want to be able to do whatever I feel like doing and not worry about anything. Even when I was a kid, the only contemporary artist I listened to was Cyndi Lauper.

My career has been: first you have to prove yourself, then there's the sophomore record, then there's this thing and that thing, and you always want to be understood.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something.

Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.

The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

A first hint of the power of the electronic media to bring disaster directly into living rooms came with the radio broadcast of the explosion of the zeppelin "Hindenburg," in 1937 . . .

When will the deathOf Death ever come?from "The Siege

all they want to dois tie the poem to a chair with ropeand torture a confession out of it.They begin beating it with a hoseto find out what it really means.

Let them shoot us in the head, My blood will grow rootsand will blossom.

TIMETimeAnd how it slips through my fingersWithout putting its ring on them, And I remain simply its lover

Just a bullet a bag and a dream that's all I had now look at what I got

In the world of Big Macks Starbucks coffee and oversized SUVS it was business as usual snort and go

Kara knew all he recognized was T and A on a string and he was nothing more than a sleazy puppeeter, so long as there were souls for sale he was ready to buy ..

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.