Quotes About Passion

I am a fitness enthusiast since childhood.

I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.

I really feel like I honed in on a sound and a style of writing that best fits me.

For me, what matters is who are you working with, what you are working on, and when all that fits naturally, I let it go. Then, I don't care if it is bold or if it needs me to be uninhibited. I just want the role that I am playing to come out the way it should.

I've been playing basketball since I was five.

I customise and build motorbikes and I can fix them myself.

I need to do more on stage. I've got to get my fix!

I'm really unimaginative - once I like something, I fix on it.

There were a lot of really special moments for me. When I first sang 'Fix You' by Coldplay, that was one. I love that song so much, and I love Coldplay, and I love what the song meant.

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

Cricket is not everything, not by any means, but it is a large part of who I am.

My guitar is not a thing. It is an extension of myself. It is who I am.

Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

You have to figure out 'who am I?' 'What do I want to do?' 'What do I want to say?'

A lot of nerds aren't aware they're nerds. A geek has thrown his hands up to the universe and gone, 'I speak Klingon - who am I fooling? You win! I'm just gonna openly like what I like.' Geeks tend to be a little happier with themselves.

My dream is to one day just be me and my guitar. I'm working myself to the core. Who am I, underneath everything else? I'm still on that journey, to find that core.

I never want to sell my soul for something I don't believe in. Because guess what? Somebody somewhere in the world would have believed in that part and should be playing it - who am I to not allow that person that opportunity?

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

I'll go to 185 pounds; who cares? Just give me fights.

There's times, in certain songs, that I might be in my own world, and who cares about who's out there, you know? You have a job to do, so you do that job of singing that song or telling that story because that's what you're doing.

It's a dying art to play live anymore and just play raw. Who cares if you make a mistake? That's punk rock. Just go out and go for it and make some noise.

When I was in college at UCLA, I took a playwriting course. I was all set to be a writer. But I had to take this acting class as a theater arts major. I had to do this scene in a one-act comedy. I just said this line, and then... this laugh happened. I thought, 'Whoa. This is a really good feeling. What have I been missing?'