Quotes About Passion

My goal every time I make a record is just to make the funkiest, the best music I could possibly make, both lyrically, and music-wise.

I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.

I like a lot of other music and listen to a lot of other music, but one of the greatest things about the Grateful Dead is they played all the time.

From the first time I saw Sid Caesar be funny I knew that's what I had to do.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

Know what you love and do what you love. If you don't do what you love, you're just wasting your time.

Oh, I was completely hooked on movies and plays and theater from the time I was a day old; I was very, very early on in love with movies and I loved plays.

I'm open to different parts. I would love to do something where I can sing and act at the same time.

I was 17, certainly by the time I was 19, I knew that show business was where I was going to end up, and I had my sights on being a director.

Probably though, by the time I was 17, I already knew that I was probably going to go into film

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

I play piano all the time. I'm always at my piano, playing music.

When I have the time at home, I'll practice three or four hours a day. I have to. And I'm a late starter; I started at age 17 and at age 51 I'm still learning.

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

I'm trying to play guitar every day. I think I have a gift, and I've not been nurturing it for a long time. So I'm trying to pick it back up.

My love of words, alcohol, and stage antics basically cemented me as a rapper, but it wasn't a career that I wanted to do. It was just, "I like to do all these things at one time."

Well I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

Loving you is a full-time job. It's a great job, don't get me wrong. It's the best job in the universe. But it's not easy.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

But all the time-no matter what she was doing-there was music.

I want to kiss you one more time before I die.

I've taken a certain a pride in all of my books. They devour so much time and energy that you have to engage deeply or you'd go mad.

I cry all the time. Music makes me cry.