Quotes About Adaption

I'll never forget my transition from pleated pants to plain front pants. It was the late '80s. I couldn't get rid of those pleated pants fast enough.

Most of my shows have shown the transition of a character from a small town to the big city.

It feels good to be able to go from music to film and have a good transition and be given the opportunities I've been given.

I've evolved with time and learnt from my daughter which designers and singers are in.

The more you're out there singing, learning, and adding roles to your repertoire, it reforms the next piece.

I'm a natural technophobe, but I can see the importance of the digital role, and you have to celebrate it - our site is obviously an incredibly important part of our business now.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

You can take the tiger out of the jungle, but you can't take the jungle out of the tiger. The question is, how can you get the tiger back in the jungle?

Culture shock

sometimes the concepts exists but need to be related to new experience.

Computers intimidate me.

I think that some people will never buy a computer because I think now we're at the point where the iPad does what some people want to do with their PCs.

The iPad changed my life!

There were many things that led to the iPhone at Apple. We were searching for what to do after iPod that would make sense.

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

I was about nine or 10 when my dad moved to the U.S. to get another degree. Me and my mother moved to Atlanta to join him when I was 14.

I think, as an artist, I wear a lot of different hats, and people have to join all of the dots.

A child, when orphaned, can become anything. If I had not joined the Army, who knows, I may have become a dacoit. I give all credit to the Army; they found Milkha Singh.

If we can choose, we can change. If we can't change, then choice means nothing. I'm glad I feel this way, to remind me that I haven't always felt the same. Been the same.

The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies.

That we cannot rise equal to situations when we are in them — that is the tragedy of life.

My definition of hip hop is taking elements from many other spheres of music to make hip hop. Whether it be breakbeat, whether it be the groove and grunt of James Brown or the pickle-pop sounds of Kraftwerk or Yellow Magic Orchestra, hip hop is also part of what they call hip-house now, or trip hop, or even parts of drum n' bass.

I was born in New York and moved to London with my family when I was five. I did have an American accent for a couple of months, and then it went a way.