Quotes About Passion

I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.

I first decided that I wanted to act when I was 9. And I was at a very bizarre prep school at the time, to say high Anglo-Catholic would be a real English understatement.

I'm a football guy. Baseball, I enjoy it at playoff time.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

Sometimes the song that takes the littlest amount of time are sometimes the best songs you ever do.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

When I was 15 I became a full-time singer in a band. At 18 I made my first record.

before I embark on any new venture, I ask myself: will the joy of doing this make me lose track of any concern for time? If the answer is yes, I proceed!

I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.

One always finds time for what one likes.

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.

For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.

I think that's the way to go - dive into the music and don't think, stay frozen, why don't we all stay frozen in time for awhile?

I've been designing my own pieces for a long time. My mother's a jewelry designer, so we knew at some point we were going to do a line and dive into the fashion world.

By the time I was 10 or 11, I knew I wanted to make films.

I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can.

Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

I have lots of interests, but it's true that dancing is a very full-time job.

When you are in the field of creativity, you lose track of time. Only the flow exists.

I lead with my heart all the time.

The goal of a passionate artist is to try and make a masterpiece each and every time, yet be wise enough to know you will fall short.

I started surfing at the age of 10, and then turned professional at the age of 16, which was right around the same time I took up the guitar. So, the surfing came first.

The negative about acting is that you have to spend a great deal of time away from your friends and loved ones.