Quotes About Passion

It doesn't matter what part I play, I try and commit myself 100 percent.

Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.

There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.

I am like the huge percentage of Indians who follow majorly cricket when it comes to sports.

I'm in a small percentage of people that get to do what they love to do for a living. I'm lucky.

I don't think my music is that big of a deal - my entire life is parenting. The fact that I make records and go off and play shows is a small percentage of my day-to-day existence.

I will not bow down to others' perceptions of me; I will only rise in the name of art, love and music.

I'm still a political revolutionary. The fire never went out of me, but perceptions and realizations change.

I think that being perceptive and having interests is nothing but an asset.

I really just wanted to play the drum set and match that. I was never really into the percussion thing.

I play the piano and that's how I learned about music. I then taught myself the guitar, drums, percussion and various other things, such as the bazooka, the mandolin, the Theremin, the alpine horn, the didgeridoo.

When I was 12, I happened to see a schoolmate playing percussion, and it looked interesting. I asked for lessons, and it felt right.

I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.

I'm more a percussion instrument than a dancer.

There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.

Rock music is not meant to be perfect.

What drives me is trying to be perfect.

Everything else is irrelevant after the bliss of giving a perfect shot.

As I get into it more, I want to grow as an artist, as an entertainer, and basically perfect my craft.

My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.

I just wanted to do my own albums where nobody could tell me what to do. Roc Nation was the perfect fit because I could do what I wanted to do.

Once I started working as an assistant director, I just realized very quickly that working on a film set was just a perfect fit for me.

In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe's.

I don't want everything to be flowery perfection. I like it there to be a charge behind it, you know?