Dan Hill
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CAMILE VELASCO DIMEBAG DARRELL I'm a binge writer. I work in the music business fulltime, in artist management and developing s... RUTA SEPETYS I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together. PAT TRAVERS My plan was always to leave school and live in a flat with some friends, have a 9 to 5 job, and try ... ELLA HENDERSON teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER GILLIAN FLYNN JIMMY PAGE TOMMY LEE So when it was my turn to start developing projects, I knew the writers I wanted to work with, and I... RUPERT SANDERS The tremendous honour of the Nobel Prize is of the strongest incentive to me in my work, while the a... AUGUST KROGH I think my Buddhist practice has a profound influence on my life and encompasses my creative project... DUNCAN SHEIK Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year... EBERHARD WEBER I'm the most Failure Model of My parents activities SATHESH KUMAR M I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with s... SAM BRADFORD ED SHEERAN I'm portable. I carry a laptop and a little recording studio on my back. ABBIE CORNISH I'm a keen musician. Me and my mates have a great times jamming and recording stuff. We have a g... TOM FELTON AYN RAND That's my contribution - running a sound, healthy company that serves millions of customers well... JAMIE DIMON I realized that I wanted to get better in every way. As a person, as a friend, as a songwriter, as a... KENNY CHESNEY DAVE DAVIES MARLO THOMAS JANE AUSTEN LADY GAGA As I came down hill my ski hit patch of ice on top of snow, and my foot came out from under me and I... COURTNEY HENRICHS I cried unto the LORD with my voice, and he heard me out of his holy hill. Selah. BIBLE She asks to see my diploma, holds it in her hands and smiles, reads it out loud before handing it ba... KENNY PORPORA My dad was an artist in his own right and had a studio in our basement when I was a kid. My twin sis... JACQUELYN SINGER I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in ... HUEY LEWIS People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances. SAM WORTHINGTON Growing up in Chadds Ford, Pa., I shuttled between studio space in my parents' house and my gran... JAMIE WYETH The challenge pushed me as a leader to strive and come out of my comfort zone. We got to meet so man... JULIE LELAND LOIS LOWRY VANILLA ICE I'm a multi-platinum recording artist; my passion is food. KELIS I didn't get into music to become a blues musician, or a country musician. I'm a singer-song... JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE I'm very proud of my records, but my most natural creative tendencies have been in live performi... LANGHORNE SLIM I got to get stuff out of my basement and save what I've got to save. MELISSA HAWKES NINA DOBREV My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass pl... STEVEN HOLL PAUL FERINNI I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a pr... T BONE BURNETT From my basement I heard an explosion and I ran and I called for my family to come downstairs. And I... ROBERT COLEMAN My idea of a holiday was following my family up the hill with my pekinese, who would skip over the h... RUPERT EVERETT REID HOFFMAN With fitness, I decided that I wanted to get into shape, and my passion for fitness and a desire to ... CECE PENISTON RUBY ROSE In my own case, I'm an artist, and I'm really interested in expanding the vocabulary of huma... GOLAN LEVIN ASHLEY BELL I did my thing with Jive. I was a national recording artist, but I had run into a wall. MYSTIKAL It's not part of my ambition to become fabulously rich. My plan was always to make my pictures, ... GARY HUME My day job is as a lawyer and I enjoy my job very much. But I think I've known for most of my life t... GEOFF PEMBLE My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom. ABBIE CORNISH In my life as an artist, I follow what I call my 'inner directive' because you can never predict wha... LAURIE MCLEOD I work with my acting coach to help me get into character and do pronunciation drills and tongue twi... QUVENZHANE WALLIS This is a big step for me professionally, and I hope it will help my reputation to grow as a profess... ELLEN THORSEN I'm a woman; in so many ways I've been programmed to please. I took the job and spent time hunkered ... KATHLEEN FLINN I have good memories of this place. I think it sets up really well for me. It allows me to be creati... CRAIG KANADA Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make... JACOB BATALON I opened my eyes and watched the water stream past me. I let out some of my air and gazed at the cas... ERICA SEHYUN SONG JOHN MILTON Everything has changed; my tone, my harmonics, my technique and control of my horn, ... It's all par... ERNIE WATTS BEAR GRYLLS MUSIQ SOULCHILD The idea of helping revitalize cities with physical projects and them taking the form of housing rea... HENRY CISNEROS I not only work online through my various projects, but I am an avid user of online technologies to ... RACHEL SKLAR Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me,... JACKIE DESHANNON I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying... GABRIELLE APLIN ROBERT SMITH As tears of bubbling pitch stream down my face, my dark work will begin. I will open one of my six m... JERRY HOLKINS Growing up, Tina Turner was definitely one of my influences, and, um, I take things from different a... LA'PORSHA RENAE PARK SHIN-HYE I could have been killed, and their response is to film me?...In that moment, the myth that every ti... JEANNE RYAN KILROY J. OLDSTER I need to thank my director, producers, and artists as well crew members of all my projects. HANSIKA MOTWANI GEORGE MICHAEL Whatever life lesson I'm going through at any point in my life, projects just somehow magically ... VICTORIA CLARK CHELSEA CLINTON To much has happened too fast Dear Diary. What I want is for nothing to happen at all. LEE SMITH TORI KELLY BRYCE COURTENAY As an artist, I gotta stand up to my own work. EDWARD RUSCHA Deepest place in my mind is my thinking and thoughts....Do not try to understand me...MARYUM AHSAM Obviously everybody knows that I'm an original songwriter and I got my band. And the guys in ... BO BICE My dream as a teenager was to run a movie studio, as in the old studio system. ROBERT GREENBLATT
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I cannot emphasize just how dangerous it is cycling in the city. Especially now. Even though it is a... DAN HILL When I'm not running, I cycle about 30 miles a day. I use the biking as cross training. I'm ... DAN HILL I think the last thing you want to do as a writer, as a storyteller, is to create indifference. I do... DAN HILL When we bemoan the lost golden age of music, it's worth remembering that mainstream radio listen... DAN HILL Sling your guitar to wherever you're going, and you'll be amazed by the connective power of ... DAN HILL The tricky thing about songwriting is that, more often than not, what you consider to be your best w... DAN HILL My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them. DAN HILL One of the things I did to make myself feel better is that I kicked up my running even more. I knew ... DAN HILL I did have one bad accident up north near Deerhurst. I was driving back in the winter on these snowy... DAN HILL When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Fra... DAN HILL With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want hi... DAN HILL I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortab... DAN HILL In Don Mills in the Sixties, nothing comes close to the humiliation of losing an argument. In our we... DAN HILL Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kan... DAN HILL When you think of bike couriers, you think of hyper speed. They get paid by how fast they can drop s... DAN HILL Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress i... DAN HILL Songs sometimes are so connected to the sociology of the time. DAN HILL Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a hou... DAN HILL If we don't invest now in so-called priority neighbourhoods with music classes, athletic facilit... DAN HILL At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen i... DAN HILL To be sure, boxing has always been, at best, a shady and sometimes cutthroat business, buttressed by... DAN HILL I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing h... DAN HILL I was wired to be intense. I don't think that's ever going to change. DAN HILL It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was... DAN HILL The hits I had in the '80s - I made those deals directly with American companies. DAN HILL In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there... DAN HILL Flipping through the 'Toronto Star' one day in 2008, I noticed a piece about a phenomenal bo... DAN HILL How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all co... DAN HILL Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off ... DAN HILL To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered ... DAN HILL Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the box... DAN HILL While I've won five Junos, I've donated four of them to the National Archives in Ottawa. Whi... DAN HILL I just wanted to show people - maybe I'm wrong - that I can still really sing. I can sing better... DAN HILL Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes... DAN HILL It's hard being homeless, without your own territory. DAN HILL In the music world, concerts unfold strictly according to plan. But, as I'd been finding out, in... DAN HILL Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racial... DAN HILL Justin did a nice job for his first varsity start. He struck out six, while walking only one. DAN HILL Troy pitched well when he was in there. DAN HILL After the first inning we let up. We've got be more aggressive to be competitive. DAN HILL He did really well today. Get used to that name, he'll be doing some great things. DAN HILL It was quite different then Saturday's game. We definitely hit today. DAN HILL If we can help people see that it's not just a race, that it's an opportunity to build life-long fri... DAN HILL The critical thing addressed here today is that there are a good number of people who do not have a ... DAN HILL This is a place to start. It's the first planting of something to grow. DAN HILL I don't want to lose my legs, you know. I don't want to be wheeled around in a wheelchair. I... DAN HILL I'd sometimes do 50, 60 takes of song. DAN HILL You get your heart stomped by the opposite sex, and you're hurting so badly that you write '... DAN HILL So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions. DAN HILL When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adole... DAN HILL I feel like I have adopted the Philippines as my second country. DAN HILL My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her. DAN HILL While certainly no pressing threat to Gordon Lightfoot, I knew it was simply a matter of time until ... DAN HILL My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first versi... DAN HILL Woody Allen movies notwithstanding, therapy, in the early eighties, was not exactly a hot conversati... DAN HILL All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conv... DAN HILL In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was b... DAN HILL I think my father had a certain degree of insecurity and need to achieve. DAN HILL You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed becaus... DAN HILL I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success. DAN HILL I didn't have that thing that Michael Bolton did; my star power - my charisma - was not a match ... DAN HILL Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the nex... DAN HILL My problem is I don't have this incredible, hip image. I'm not some flamboyant or gorgeous-l... DAN HILL Most of my friends in Nashville - almost all of them - seem to have had hits in the '70s, either... DAN HILL I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving ... DAN HILL That was my first introduction to BMWs in 1978, when my friend bought it for me as a surprise with m... DAN HILL I just want people to know they are the masters of their own fortune and misfortune. A lot of us thi... DAN HILL I never go on a run when I don't think of my dad, where I don't think about how powerful his... DAN HILL I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing help... DAN HILL Hit songs are mysterious and slippery beasts; few artists have a lock on them. This means that many ... DAN HILL You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber. DAN HILL I feel the only way I can survive is to spend a lot of time writing songs. I have to have incredible... DAN HILL NAPOLEON HILL NAPOLEON HILL NAPOLEON HILL 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the ... KACY HILL I have these long nails, but I literally do nothing to them! The thought of filing my nails drives m... KACY HILL I take these vitamins that make my hair grow like crazy. They're called Herpanacine, and I get t... KACY HILL I have really sensitive skin, so all I use is Cetaphil Gentle Skin Cleanser and Moisturizing Cream, ... KACY HILL I grew up in Arizona, but I moved to L.A. when I was 18 to model. I was doing work for American Appa... KACY HILL I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that&#... KACY HILL I myself was a wedding photographer when I was, like, 16. KACY HILL I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one ... KACY HILL I went to this little performing arts school in downtown Phoenix. You had to dance or act, and every... 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I ran a lot of scout team my freshman and sophomore years, ... ALAN HILL It will leave boarded up premises on Castle Street - the main street - and create a ghost town. ALAN HILL I got to get stronger, ... I'm fast, but I'm not the biggest guy, so I have to be deceptively strong... ALAN HILL I think a lot of people are doubting (Milford) after we lost to Sussex Central. Hopefully, Friday wi... ALAN HILL I expect to play, ALAN HILL We'd obviously like it to have been better. But I don't think we hurt ourselves and that's kind of t... ALAN HILL The problem comes when you say that danger is part of the equation. Then you don't do any more w... DAMON HILL To be honest, I think for part of my late teens my character didn't really develop very much. I ... DAMON HILL If someone is being absolutely critical of me as a driver, what could they say? I am also critical o... DAMON HILL I think at times I appear to be miserable when I am not... I might be having quite a good thought at... DAMON HILL If I am treated fairly, I like to do things in a fair manner. That is the way I have been all my car... DAMON HILL Realistically, we could aim for the top three in the constructors championship. Realistically, we co... DAMON HILL I am not allowing myself to get carried away. DAMON HILL I am surprised people took so long to pick up on the fact that my contract expires at the end of thi... DAMON HILL Because it is my second season with the team, no time has been wasted in getting to know the people ... DAMON HILL Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals ... DAMON HILL People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable... DAMON HILL I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it ... DAMON HILL I have always liked a challenge. DAMON HILL The British tend to shy away from the spotlight. We don't like being singled out in any way, and... DAMON HILL I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. ... DAMON HILL If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pu... DAMON HILL There are a lot of factors in the life of an F1 driver which can combine to make you believe that yo... DAMON HILL Some books claim I have already clocked up a century of Grands Prix, but let me put the record strai... DAMON HILL The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s an... DAMON HILL You should never feel comfortable. There is something wrong if you are. You should always feel under... DAMON HILL Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners. 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My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on to... 
My intention when I came into this industry was to be a musician, not necessarily a recording artist... 
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recordi... 
Believe it or not, most people think of me as a recording artist, but actually the way I think of my... 
Having Jon as my partner for 26 years I've been inspired and challenged to become a better musician,... 
The reason that I'm here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encourage... 
I've made music for grownups most of my life as a singer/songwriter - often with my band, Nine S... 
My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally... 
I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbin... 
Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in r... 
I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers... 
I saw Damien Rice in Dublin when I was 13, and that inspired me to want to pursue being a songwriter... 
Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their fa... 
The book that I'm writing - it's to do with my life as a musician and writer and the spiritual side ... 
I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on m... 
A girl likes to be crossed a little in love now and then.
My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist. 
Its a little like looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror. 
It took me a while and a lot of hard times to figure out my purpose, I am so happy with my life. I j... 
I really want to be associated with great projects and character driven projects and films. I have t... 
Father mother god, help me to feel my oneness with you. Help me to feel my equality with my brothers... 
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and... 
Because fashion essentially is art, and as an artist and someone who is also a musician and an artis... 
After school, my mom would pick me up and I would just go to visit my dad in the recording studio, a... 
Ah, much deluded! lay aside
For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move ... 
I like to entertain people according to what they're saying entertains them. As an artist, music... 
I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my pas... 
Due to my hectic work schedule, I hardly have enough sleep, and my skin tends to look dull. Facial m... 
Sharing stories that fill our chambers with an explosion of unique voices is a means to instigate an... 
The fact I had my father as an adversary was such a powerful tool to work with. I subconsciously fou... 
I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit w... 
One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh b... 
My job is essentially that of an entertainer, no different to that of a musician, no different to th... 
The battle is all over except the 'shouting' when one knows what is wanted and has made up h... 
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set... 
I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to... 
Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to ... 
My family and my friends are most important to me. These people are my foundation. 
There was a period of time when I first moved to Nashville, like the first couple of years, that I w... 
I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience. 
What position didn't I play last season? 
I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but... 
Who backs his rigid Sabbath, so to speak,
Against the wicked remnant of the week." 
If you reach for the stars, you just might land on a decently sized hill. 
Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get olde... 