Quotes About Journey

I was not a politician.

A lot of folks feel like my brother and me or other politicians chart out their careers from Day 1 until the end. I've never been like that.

I got the feeling: It's time to do a Marco Polo story. I felt like everything was lining up right because long-form television series were becoming to me like the new great American novel.

When it comes to spiritual truth, how can we know that we are on the right path? One way is by asking the right questions - the kind that help us ponder our progress and evaluate how things are working for us.

I've always gone back and forth between acting and music, but for music I'm not trying to be a pop star - I just like to do it.

My first port of call was Los Angeles. That's where I laid my first foot on America.

A performance is like a boat. You really want it to arrive at port. So when something goes wrong and it doesn't get there, that touches me a lot.

A lot of my songs are just posing questions, because I'm on a journey to find the answers myself.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

I had some different positions. At first, I was a forward, and then, step by step, I kept moving back, and now I'm here at the goal. This was my way.

Reading is a possession, a march toward a possession.

I knew my ways were unfulfilling. I chased power, pleasure, possessions, something satisfying. I knew I kept getting let down. I knew it was insanity, and I was never going to find fulfillment, but I didn't know what else to look for.

I think it's important to have as many experiences as possible in life because one day you won't be able to do it anymore.

I don't see how I possibly could have come from where I entered the planet to where I am now if there had not been angels along the way.

I have gotten some of the most beautiful experiences that a person can possibly ask for so I'm not at all complaining.

Post 'Laila Majnu,' I was just sitting at home because I wanted to be part of a story that is as special as 'Bulbbul.'

'Use Somebody' I posted - it was the end of 2009, around Christmas. That was my first video.

Songs are like sign posts in my life.

My great, great grandfather, Michael O'Hanson, fled the impending potato famine of Ireland and arrived in America in the early 1840s with his bride, Bridget. They headed for Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love and a mecca for Irish-Catholic immigrants then.

My life guided me to express my full potential.

There are records that, in my opinion, only reach their full potential when the listener is disoriented.

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Mondays are the potholes in the road of life.

Harry Potter was my first job.