Quotes About Disillusionment

I've never been inspired by a politician in France, and I think a lot of my own generation think that way.

People hate politicians. And I can understand why.

I've never been disappointed by politicians. I've never invested that much in them in the first place.

I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians.

People don't like politicians.

The majority of people think their children's lives will not be as good as theirs. Nearly half of all Americans are no longer proud of their country. Politicians have become a despised breed.

There were many times eating ramen noodles and sitting on a friend's couch watching ESPN where I was like, 'This is not what I thought California was going to be like. I thought it was going to be pools and cocktails with umbrellas in them and Maseratis, but this ain't it.'

Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music.

We sometimes feel a little world-weary where pop music is going.

I used to sit in my bedroom and think that all of my favourite pop stars go on stage, they sing, and then they do other normal stuff. I didn't know what goes on or what you let yourself in for.

When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.

The Conservative Party has abandoned conservatives.

People are like, 'Do you watch movies?' I'm like, 'I don't care.' I've ceased caring. I can't watch that construct anymore.

I hate talking about the dunk contest. I'm just so sick of the dunk contest. I'm done with that. That point of my life I'm over with.

I'm an old cynic.

I was done with music and I became very cynical about the industry and Top 40 radio. I didn't even want to look at music for a while, and did a course in screen-writing.

England's just very cynical.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

Things aren't always the fairy tale that you thought they were.

When people talk about the '60s I never think that was me there. It was me and I was in it, but I was never enamoured with all that. It's supposed to be sex and drugs and rock and roll and I'm not really like that. I've never really seen the Rolling Stones as anything.

I have always demanded the maximum of myself, but the tank is quite empty. The balance of the hard work I put in day in and day out and the satisfaction I get out of it at the end of the day is no longer there.

I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.