John Oates
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KELLY JONES I feel like you become a songwriter when you claim that it's sort of like a switch flipped, and ... CHARLIE WORSHAM When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their... KRISTY SWANSON I think in most cases, when you're writing a song, you're just making up a little story, and... ADAM SCHLESINGER It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together. MAURICE GIBB You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're ... JOHN ZORN I'm not afraid to use my personal experiences and put them into a song. I think that's when ... PIXIE LOTT When you're guest-starring, it's very nice, but you're there very briefly, and it's ... ZELJKO IVANEK BARBARA BUSH ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Comedy is so subjective. You could be in a room with 400 people laughing at a joke and you could jus... TODD PHILLIPS JOHN CUSACK But don't get caught out there looking goofy. It's weird. 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BUTLER I think finales are always so hit or miss because they're so personal. When you do a finale, it&... PHILIP WINCHESTER There's a lot of personal stuff that can go into songwriting but there's also a lot of drama... NORAH JONES IAN MCEWAN NIKKI SIXX HARRY STYLES STERLING K. BROWN I really appreciate Frank Ocean's lyrical style, I appreciate the way that he can kind of draw y... ALICIA KEYS RYAN REYNOLDS You know, I've sung a lot of emotional songs in my life, but when you're writing it yourself... DIANA KRALL With animated film, you have to create the sonic world; there's nothing there. You get to color ... HANS ZIMMER SHAH RUKH KHAN TOM WAITS Prayer's important, not just as some kind of a metaphysical exercise, but I think it's a way... MIKE HUCKABEE DAMIEN HIRST MICHAEL AZERRAD If you are making money writing, you are doing great. If you can support yourself writing, you are a... 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ERINN HAYES CARA DELEVINGNE There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, yo... KARA DIOGUARDI SUMMER SANDERS ERIN WASSON SETH ROGEN It's impossible to change the social without changing the personal - you have to put your money ... CARRIE MAE WEEMS When you write a song, there's no point keeping it to yourself. IWAN RHEON When your hair is rising, that's when you know it's a good song - that's happened to me ... JOSE GONZALEZ DEEPIKA PADUKONE I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird. EDIE CAMPBELL JOHN OLIVER DAMON ALBARN MICHAEL DELL I don't really follow fashion exactly, but I've always been very interested in the way that ... LENORA CRICHLOW You're blinded by lights and you see all these people who come out, and it's exciting. It... VANESSA KERRY BUN E. CARLOS I feel like going to class every morning is so humbling. You're always working to improve, and y... MISTY COPELAND G-EAZY IAN MCSHANE NOEL GALLAGHER HANNAH SIMONE People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable... DAMON HILL CHARLES BUKOWSKI IAN MCKELLEN LEROY NEIMAN I like 'Goodbye My Lover' because it's a really personal song and I recorded it in my la... JAMES BLUNT JASON KIDD HANNAH SIMONE I do think there are some actors that can get away with trying to be funny, and they're still fu... CONSTANCE WU DAVID ARQUETTE KAREN FINERMAN
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To progress anywhere in life, yo... JOHN NOBLE DAYMOND JOHN Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th... JOHN ELWAY JOHN TYLER JOHN LENNON JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent. JOHN JAY
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things th... 
There is something very unsettling about being with someone when they die. People say it's peace... 
You can tell if there's magic in something. When you start it, you want to finish it and you wan... 
I think a lot of times it's not money that's the primary motivation factor; it's the pas... 
There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo... 
The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in t... 
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel... 
If you're a movie star, there's a cycle you go through: adoration, adulation, you're use... 
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's... 
After a while, no matter how much you love any pop song, you're going to get tired of it. That&#... 
When I'm writing a song, it's just me and the songwriters. Then when the song is done, there... 
Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get cau... 
The major tragedies in life, there's just no compensation. But the minor ones you can always wri... 
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it&... 
I think anything that's creative really takes my mind off whatever it is that I'm going thro... 
I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whet... 
We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes... 
Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There... 
There's a personal me, there's an actor me and there's a star me. 
When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respe... 
Making art, good art, is always a struggle. It can make you happy when you pull it off. There's ... 
When you're writing, you're only a brain and some fingers, but drumming, you're involvin... 
In today's time, writing stuff that actually happened is touch-and-go, because you don't wan... 
When you set a goal, it's a personal thing, and that goal should be very big, hairy and audaciou... 
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want. 
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation... 
I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved ... 
We get to live in a time that we get to use social media as a tool. It's not just a face on a pi... 
There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much ... 
When you model, there's no way you can't notice yourself. Do you know what I mean? Because y... 
It's not really about the competition. Your biggest challenge in a race is yourself. You're ... 
The older I get, I'm definitely getting pulled towards the West Coast, because it's a differ... 
I know most people don't like their jobs very much and don't get a lot of personal satisfact... 
I have always been focused on my job. No profession allows you the luxury of being half-focused. If ... 
It's exciting to have a role in anything that's Claymation, just because you're always i... 
Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some s... 
When you found a company, you feel a deep sense of responsibility for it. I'll care about Dell e... 
Every musician in the known universe has signed a bad piece of paper, myself included. But it's ... 
When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song ... 
When you're in your early 20s, you go ahead and do everything. And it's very hard to judge y... 
When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every ... 
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get... 
When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It... 
Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discoverin... 
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can... 
When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a ... 
It comes down to personal style, and that's what's sexy and attractive in a man. 
I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very h... 
It's OK to have a plan, to invest in your future - for your financial security, your love life, ... 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ... 
'Maneater' is about N.Y.C. in the '80s. It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riche... 
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ... 
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think ge... 
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think get... 
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so... 
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al... 
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai... 
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am... 
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. 
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.