SebastiAn Quotes
Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.
You always have to measure your desires and goals against your ego and your humility.
Getting old is horrible, but it is interesting . . . one of the things I've realized is that growing old is compulsory, but growing up is optional.
I am desperate for attention. But everyone else is too. Everyone has fantasies of fame and greatness. Life for most people is a process of shedding those fantasies.
We build our character as a carapace to keep away the fear of the abyss. That's what our character is for.
Sometimes I've gone out there and thought to myself, 'Don't miss this one, don't miss it.' I don't think about that anymore. It just comes natural.
People who do really dangerous tasks can't afford to sit around and discuss the merits of what they're doing.
There's no reason to do anything twice, and certainly no reason to do something that almost killed you.
A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.
"Failure" isn't a word I really use. I am a very resilient person; I bounce back extremely fast, and I believe in myself and my talent as an artist.
Acting is a lifelong love affair, and I am passionate and respect my craft to the utmost degree, which gives me the strength to move on from adversity in my work.
I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
The best thing is the combined effect of nicotine with alcohol, greater than the sum of the two parts.
A lot of people when they try to sing Skid Row songs, they're screaming and yelling too much. It's more singing than screaming.
I get noticed for different things I've done in different areas of town. If I'm in a rock club, it'll be Skid Row, if I'm in a mall it's the 'Gilmore Girls.'
My vocal style is called bel canto, which is an old Italian vocal style going back hundreds of years.
It is easy for me to go play a rock show, I have been doing that all my life and I love that.
A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.
Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.
We have reason to feel good, but it's also a threat to feel too good and I will pay attention that that doesn't happen.
And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth.
That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.
The thought of all that happiness was hard to bear. What's the point of happiness when all it does is throw the facts of dying into clear relief?
I breathed and breathed and did feel some calmness enter in, though it was, as always, shot with a sense of loss. Loss and fear.
It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.
A bit of the vagueness of music stops you going completely mad, I imagine.
I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.