Quotes About Contrast

I listen to Frank Sinatra before my fight a lot, and I also listen to Orisha music, so both of those, I need, it's weird. It's a weird combination.

They're like a weird couple. If you were to personify the artichoke and the oyster, they would have a great date. They would totally get along.

There's a weird contrast between my usual daily routine and then my book coming out. It's like someone's just suddenly opened the curtains in a dark room, and everyone's looking at you.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

The weird thing about the subway is no one looks at each other. So I play the O2 in London. It's a 20,000 capacity venue, and then I'll take the subway to my gig, and everyone's going to my gig, and no one looks at you. If anyone does, they say, 'Hey, you look exactly like James Blunt, only smaller.'

I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.

New York is like the weirdest city in the United States, in a great way, and Los Angeles is probably more similar to most of America.

Pop should be weird, and I realize as I say this that I'm not the weirdest person in the world. But if that means a girl sounding like Kylie Minogue and looking like Kurt Cobain, then so be it.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

For being such a dark city, 'Gotham,' it's a really, really sweet group of people, very welcoming.

To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.

I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.

A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.

I really, really like interior design. I grew up in a really old house outside of Philly that was built in 1821. My mom is really into antiques, and my dad is very mid-century. They're not together anymore, so in the middle of growing up, I, all of the sudden, had two houses that were very different but really well done in each of their own ways.

It blows my mind that you get Shakespeare where the 'low' comedy characters have got Northern or Welsh accents.

That's acting for you. 'White Queen' has English playing Welsh and vice versa.

I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

I'm a West Coast dude, definitely, but I do like the city of D.C. It's cool. A lot of things to do. It's just cold.

When you say you grew up in Los Angeles, a lot of people think the west side: they think the glitz and all this stuff that I actually had no relationship to growing up.

In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

Western Nebraska is the only place in all my travels where I have seen the dust blowing and the rain falling at the same time.