Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Bush

I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.

Jeremy Spencer

I just like simplicity. I like simple songs, I like simple chords, simple vocals, simple lead guitar. I just like simplicity. That's just the way I like it.

Elvis Costello

I followed The Byrds a lot, and then when they did a country styled record it made me curious to know who these people were that they liked.

Siobhan Fahey

I love to sing old Motown songs to myself,or some Patti Smith Edith Piaf or Billie Holiday. That gets me in the mood for singing.

Michael Korda

The fastest way to succeed is to look as if you're playing by other people's rules, while quietly playing by your own.

Eric Clapton

You know, that's it, there's no turning back because what it's made of is so fine. It's like crystal, you know, it's like the purest crystal.

Jim Capaldi

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.

Richard Thompson

It's hard to tell where one tour ends and the next begins. I'm generally touring most of any year. I'm just generally out there doing it.

John Walters

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.

Saoirse Ronan

All teenagers want to rebel a little and break away. But I think you are always going to want to go back to your parents for that safety they provide.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

Sara Paxton

I think that no matter what you're doing as a teenager, you're going to be presented with peer pressure.

Ryan Phillippe

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

Wesley Morris

The enormous success of 2009's 'The Blind Side,' in which Sandra Bullock makes a black teenager one of the family, demonstrates that America isn't post-racial. It is thoroughly mired in race - the myths that surround it, the guilt it inspires, the discomfort it causes, the struggle to transcend it.

Samantha Bond

Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.

Mal Peet

I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

Neal Stephenson

So a lot of what you see in the Baroque Cycle is me wanting to be one of those guys. In the case of Anathem, I needed something that was more formal, less flashy, as if it had been translated from the classical language of another planet, but enlivened with slang terms that a teenage narrator would enjoy throwing around.

Neal Shusterman

Teenage rebellion is for suburban schoolchildren. Get over it.