Quotes About Renewal

If you get back into the beginner mindset, you can unearth an energy and a fire that I didn't know I could even still possess.

For 10 years, I gave away my possessions every year and moved on to a new place.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

I'm pretty much done with political commentary. I've said everything I could possibly say. I've been a big mouth for long enough.

I always naturally want to change things up if I possibly can. I never want to write a sequel to a book. I don't want to go back over things. I don't want to adapt my own books for the screen. That's something that's important to me, the keeping it fresh.

I use the period between Christmas and New Year to potter about, think and completely change my mindset. In that easy no-man's-land between Boxing Day and New Year, loins are girded and mettle readied. It is time, as we voyagers bid farewell to the old year, to fare forward.

Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding, hung over for four hours in America - and it's shaping up to be a nasty day, but its still morning in America.

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

I'm constantly reinventing myself. It's a constant thing that I do.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

Life is continually changing. This is what makes people better.

If you offer a player a new contract, and a good contract, that means you want to keep the player.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

The industry is always changing, but country music is like a force that always comes back.

Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.

Actually, after 'All Love Lost' I was so drained creatively that I didn't have any clue where I wanted to go. So I just started from scratch.

I think the Creator renews me.

When your whole world feels like it's crumbling down, everything you thought you knew, it's really to be rebuilt again but much stronger.

Life is all about cycles.

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit.

Conversion is a daily thing.

What was old can be brought back new, and I bring that to the table. I bring mannerisms, facials, body language, positioning.

We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.