My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.
Sam Smith
Related I don't feel typecast almost at all, and it could just be because I'm insensitive, but I dou... GRACE PARK You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ... SUFJAN STEVENS I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rappin... NINA SIMONE My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me. GERARD WAY I think I don't take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it's a fun life. I take my mu... BRUNO MARS I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling ... NEIL YOUNG I have self-doubt. I have insecurity. I have fear of failure. I have nights when I show up at the ar... KOBE BRYANT I always say if music can't make you cry, you're a hopeless case. I don't cry very much ... LINDA RONSTADT My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on... ERIC CLAPTON I think that creative work, music in particular, is a conveyor of inner emotional life. I don't ... KYP MALONE At the end of the day, people have the right to have opinions. I have the right to have an opinion. ... TYGA Even now I doubt myself. I don't understand what people hear in my voice. I can't hear it my... SAM SMITH I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side... EVE I don't like the word 'urban' because I think it's a bit of a generalisation and the... TAIO CRUZ I don't know if it's my music, my lyrics, my sound, and knowing the music business the way I... BARRY WHITE You know how a lot of people say, 'I lose myself in music,' or 'I like to escape,' b... JHENE AIKO People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English m... HARRISON BIRTWISTLE I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that... DYLAN MORAN People ask me about my limp. I say, 'You know, I don't know how bad it is, because I don'... TERI GARR It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about ... BETH DITTO If you don't think it. You'll never do it! ANTHONY T. HINCKS I think I'm always adopting a persona. That's how I look at pop music. I don't feel like... ROBYN I don't have any real spirituality in my life - I'm kind of an atheist - but when music can ... JACK BLACK I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap. BOB HOPE Music is my favorite thing in the world. I grew up completely around it and I think it's one of ... RILEY KEOUGH It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing mysel... WENDY O. WILLIAMS I don't care what people say. My music's, my music. ENRIQUE IGLESIAS There was a time when my whole life was in chaos, really, and I didn't help myself sort it out. ... BILLY IDOL I don't really like to call myself a brand, and I don't like to think of myself as a brand. ... BEYONCE KNOWLES I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be... QUINCY JONES I played Woodstock in '69, and it really changed my life. Without a doubt, it was the single eve... EDGAR WINTER I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I... RUPERT EVERETT I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others... JERRY GARCIA When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don... EVELYN ASHFORD I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really ... CASS MCCOMBS Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to pu... AUSTIN MAHONE I don't care about what people might call my style. It's just like when people call my music... MAC DEMARCO I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my fr... NATALIA KILLS I can't help other people's frustrations. I don't owe people anything. If people would l... DAVID GILMOUR I just consider myself an artist. I don't really rap. I don't really sing. I just do what I ... FETTY WAP I live my life and play my music, and I don't really seek out other people's approval or acc... KENNY G I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, bu... LAINIE KAZAN I don't like putting a name on my music. It's not just country and rap; it's got Souther... BIG SMO I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the tim... RADHA MITCHELL Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's... B. B. KING Everything's a real passion to me - my children, my family, my work, travel. I don't play te... ROSALYN SUSSMAN YALOW I wouldn't compare myself to any past Idol contestant, because I don't feel like I am like a... NAIMA ADEDAPO If I go anywhere, and I don't have my coffee, I don't drink coffee. When I travel, I carry i... GRACE HIGHTOWER I'm asked all the time in interviews about who I am, and I know a few people my age who have a s... KRISTEN STEWART When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion tha... YAEL NAIM It's always been a struggle to differentiate myself, but I like my parents. I enjoy doing events... JESSE KELLERMAN I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don'... LAILA ALI I've spent most of my life doing some sort of exercise, but I've learned to never push mysel... SAMAIRE ARMSTRONG I don't like L.A. It's just not fun. I don't know why, but I just don't get it. You ... LADY GAGA I don't desire happiness. I think it's a myth, and I don't think it's... and it make... BEAU WILLIMON I don't just study my opponent; I study myself. It's something you have to do to get better. STEFON DIGGS I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratificat... JEREMY RENNER I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes t... MITCHEL MUSSO I think theatricality is just one way of performing. I don't think it's a better way or the ... ADAM LAMBERT I don't feel uncomfortable in America, but every once in a while, I'm reminded that people d... CHANG-RAE LEE I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't kno... ARIEL PINK I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of... ERIK LARSON It's nice to have a few names. I use a few names myself. I use a few different surnames. I call ... AIDAN GILLEN If I find myself just not feeling like writing songs anymore, I think I'll drop it. There's ... ISAAC BROCK I don't see myself as a full-time broadcaster. I've done some of it, and I enjoy it, but I d... ARNOLD PALMER You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the doug... AIMEE MANN I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they'r... MORTON FELDMAN It'd be disingenuous to say I don't like attention - I'm an actor for God's sake - a... PAUL GIAMATTI All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. ... AFRIKA BAMBAATAA I don't think you can mix classical music and reggae. It's not possible. But some producer i... B.O.B I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it b... JUANES I don't even listen to the records after they come out. It's outlawed in my house. My wife a... DR. DRE I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing... RACHEL KELLER I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found... TEA LEONI It's so easy to put music out that it's difficult to sift through stuff that I don't lik... MARK HOPPUS Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write ... YAEL NAIM I'm embarrassed to say that I don't have a lot of hobbies. It's not because I don't ... MIKE COLTER I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't... AGNES OBEL I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people w... BOB NEWHART I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like ... T.I. I've been making music for a long time, but I've been waiting to do it right, because I don&... EVAN ROSS When I record somebody else's song, I have to make it my own or it doesn't feel right. I'... JOHNNY CASH The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to sta... A. R. RAHMAN Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art bu... MARIO TESTINO Here's the problem: I don't like who I've become when my iPhone is within reach. I find ... JOSH RADNOR I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am... DONATELLA VERSACE Pilates is my favorite meditative way to get in shape. I don't like the gym and I don't like... LYNDSY FONSECA I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined a... SCOTT STOSSEL I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it. MANOLO BLAHNIK I am a very musical person. I love music, and I don't just love Cape Breton fiddling, although i... NATALIE MACMASTER I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don&... LILLY PULITZER 'The Exorcist' is absolutely my favorite horror film, and I watched it when I was, like, sev... ODETTE ANNABLE My liberty is about living. It's about spreading more love. Even though I was always a peaceful,... SNOOP DOGG I'm thrilled that country music fans like my stuff, but so do a lot of people outside of country... KACEY MUSGRAVES When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of ... MAHESH BABU I have a harder time eating properly than I do exercising. It's easier for me to add an activity... CARRIE FISHER Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's... KACEY MUSGRAVES I don't know where people think I'm from, but I'm from Chicago. It's really just tha... CHANCE THE RAPPER I want to live in my truth. Tell me you don't like me, and I know it. But when you don't tel... LEE DANIELS I could never change the overall feel of my music. 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SAM SMITH I'm a gay man who came out when I was 10 years old, and there's nothing in my life that I... SAM SMITH It was only when I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. SAM SMITH I want to make the music that's not there anymore. I'm so passionate about the singing voice... SAM SMITH [As he and his father played a game of one-on-one later that day, Sam spoke up. He felt sad, but als... SAM SMITH My heart only beats for you but you never listen it SAM You want to be happy? you should first learn how to let it go SAM Atoms consist of a positive nucleus and negative electrons flying around outside it. Electrons close... SAM KEAN Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. SAM WALTON Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normal... SAM YAGAN A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live unde... 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SAM RAYBURN You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. SAM RAYBURN I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to fil... SAM RAIMI Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo... SAM RAIMI Some movies to me are like vampires - they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like tha... SAM RAIMI R is for wussies if you're talking about blood and guts. SAM RAIMI I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan makin... SAM RAIMI I think she said I should seek help. Something like that, but it was in much cruder terms. And that ... SAM RAIMI My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never... SAM RAIMI I've always heard people's criticisms twice as loudly as their praise. SAM RAIMI Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's ... SAM RAIMI It's lovely being a producer. It's really a lot of fun and I can learn a lot. SAM RAIMI As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I ... SAM RAIMI I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give the... SAM RAIMI I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me. SAM RAIMI I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately wit... SAM RAIMI I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I reall... SAM RAIMI I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me the... SAM RAIMI I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr... SAM RAIMI I'm not certain, but I have a little gypsy blood in me. And my mother always told me that her gr... SAM RAIMI You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes ... SAM RAIMI I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were an... SAM RAIMI Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me. SAM RAIMI That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are ca... SAM RAIMI If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original. SAM RAIMI I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construct... SAM RAIMI When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the... SAM RAIMI I love cats. I've had cats as pets. SAM RAIMI The Price Is Right can really get me going. SAM PECKINPAH Yeah, Dundee was great. It was a great film. I fell in love with my Mexican wife on Dundee. SAM PECKINPAH Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists. SAM PECKINPAH Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love. SAM PECKINPAH The end of a picture is always an end of a life. SAM PECKINPAH Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kin... SAM PALLADIO My family runs a little art gallery back in Cornwall, so flashy cars and things like that have never... SAM PALLADIO As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of ... SAM PALLADIO I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value! SAM PALLADIO If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you'... SAM PALLADIO Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy. SAM NEILL 'Dexter' I'm very fond of. I got addicted to that. SAM NEILL I can never really remember what I look like. I'm just sort of neutral. I don't think I'... SAM NEILL I'm not big on Champagne, but I'd take along a bottle of Cristal to pop for when the boat co... SAM NEILL I go by the role pretty much. And I think the only genre I haven't gotten to do but I'd love... SAM NEILL As much as possible, I try to encourage people to use stunt men because that is really their job. SAM NEILL When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the gr... SAM NEILL I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. T... SAM NEILL If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertain... SAM NEILL I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not wi... SAM NEILL When I started in films, it never really occurred to me that I could make a career out of acting. SAM NEILL Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work. SAM NEILL People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things. SAM NEILL I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, i... SAM NEILL I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go. SAM NEILL I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character. SAM NEILL I can tell you where I was when Kennedy was shot - which was in the common room at school. I heard a... SAM NEILL No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. SAM NEILL Actors get pigeonholed very quickly, particularly movie actors. In the theater, one is more used to ... SAM MENDES It's a risk casting anyone against type or what they're known to do. But there's one thi... SAM MENDES For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie. SAM MENDES One of the reasons I loved working with Tom is people feel they know who he is... I think working wi... SAM MENDES I've made movies that cost less than one car chase. SAM MENDES Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that. SAM MENDES Thank God I don't live in Los Angeles. I think if you're there the whole time it just gets o... SAM MENDES I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is differe... SAM MENDES You think about taking audiences on a journey. SAM MENDES If you lived through the shooting of Jaws, you can live through anything. SAM MENDES I deliberately, in a way, went for something that was a huge challenge and was a big period film. I ... SAM MENDES One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films. SAM MENDES All I know is that I operate by going out to each of them and trying to learn the territory in which... SAM MENDES Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces. SAM MENDES The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. SAM MENDES You freeze with the number of opportunities given to you and just decide to do nothing at all. SAM MENDES I want to try and work in different genres with different types of actors, on small movies and big m... SAM MENDES There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. Th... SAM MENDES The characters are trapped within the lifestyle. It's about what goes on before the movie starts... SAM MENDES You've got to work. You've got to want an audience to sit forward in their chairs sometimes,... SAM MENDES I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it. SAM MENDES The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - w... SAM MENDES I don't think good and evil are polarized. SAM MENDES I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is... SAM MENDES It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. Bu... SAM MENDES I want to inspire, and be inspired. SAM MENDES Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor. SAM LEVENSON I admit that: my wife is outspoken, but by whom? SAM LEVENSON Our parents set the moral tone of the family. They expected more of some of us and less of others, b... SAM LEVENSON The difference between keeping things clean and keeping kids clean was that things just sat still an... SAM LEVENSON When I was a boy I used to do what my father wanted. Now I have to do what my boy wants. My problem ... SAM LEVENSON You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice. SAM LEVENSON One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your im... SAM LEVENSON Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' c... SAM LEVENSON It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. SAM LEVENSON We should not permit prayer to be taken out of the schools; that's the only way most of us got t... SAM LEVENSON I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! SAM LEVENSON Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier. SAM LEVENSON Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it. SAM LEVENSON If you want to know how your girl will treat you after marriage, just listen to her talking to her l... SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all... SAM LEVENSON I'm so tired of men who are afraid to hurt women's feelings. SAM KINISON I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you ... SAM KINISON I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to wo... SAM KINISON I don't deny my life-style is occasionally pretty wild. SAM KINISON Everything can be satirized. SAM KINISON I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'... SAM KINISON I'm attracted to heartbreakers. SAM KINISON It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there. SAM KINISON Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row. SAM KINISON If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows. SAM KINISON I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order. SAM KINISON AIDS is a horrible disease, and the people who catch it deserve compassion. SAM KINISON Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change. SAM KINISON Obviously I'm not a role model for impressionable youth. SAM KINISON I don't worry about terrorism. I was married for two years. SAM KINISON In the 1990s, it's OK to do comedy about the Chernobyl disaster or the Space Shuttle blowing up.... SAM KINISON Jesus is still up in Heaven, thumbing through his Bible, going 'Where did I say build a water sl... SAM KINISON Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it. SAM KINISON Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attit... SAM KINISON I started saying things in church that didn't meet with a lot of approval - like 'Jesus isn&... SAM KINISON My view of life is, 'If you're going to miss Heaven, why miss it by two inches? Miss it! SAM KINISON You don't know what a rough crowd is. If all I have to do is go make people laugh, that's no... SAM KINISON You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart. SAM KEEN A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that ... SAM KEEN Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wr... SAM KEAN I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your p... SAM KEAN Despite what you might guess, when monitoring your breathing, your body doesn't care whether you... SAM KEAN In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more deman... SAM KEAN The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - ren... SAM KEAN Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe... SAM KEAN Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civili... SAM KEAN Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges... SAM KEAN Guinea pigs are practically synonymous with experiments. Lab rats have become the workhorses of mode... 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SAM KEAN I didn't mind staying home from school and medicating myself with vanilla ice cream and chocolat... SAM KEAN Brain surgery couldn't happen without the patient's own active voice to guide the work. The ... SAM KEAN Genes are like the story, and DNA is the language that the story is written in. SAM KEAN I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they w... SAM HUNTINGTON