Quotes About Passion

You know that you're going to invest so much of your time on a movie when you direct it that it's something that just really has to jump out at you and pull at your heart, and nothing has.

Finding a good cause is incredibly hard and time-consuming.

There's nothing like theater. It's really amazing. But it does take up all of your time. I would like to get into more film, just because I find it super fascinating.

When music becomes a job, you all of a sudden have other jobs and you become like a manager of time. If you have no ability to do that, your job gets very hard very quickly.

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being.

I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.

Around the time the Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, I was already in a band.

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else.

I directed a half hour comedy pilot, 'Upgrade,' and had one of the best times ever! I had such a great time directing; I would love to get to direct another project.

I think people face that in any artistic field, this idea of: oh, I could do that, if I had the time.

If I'm working, I'm not D.J.'ing. And if I'm not working, I'm D.J.'ing all the time.

When it comes to making an album I take that very seriously. I am meticulous, overworked. That's my time to put everything under the microscope.

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time they spend studying the band.

First time I kissed you, I lost my legs.

And you, You can be mean And I, I'll drink all the time 'Cause we're lovers, And that is a fact Yes we're lovers, And that is that

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

I produced her first album, and I was breaking up with her at the time. That was not comfortable. Falling in love with Joni Mitchell is a bit like falling into a cement mixer!

I love books. I read voraciously, and I happened to have been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time.

I stay up nights and fiddle with my opera designs. It's a bit obsessive. That's why I can't do it all the time.

I mean if you draw you like drawing, it's er, an activity you do all the time actually.

I hope I'm not sitting on a bench in a retirement home talking about what was: "Oh, I worked with this guy and that guy." I hope I'm still doing it for a really long time.

I never assign a product to a writer unless I know that he is personally interested in it. Every time I have written a bad campaign, it has been because the product did not interest me.

I just kinda like playing. I don't necessarily go on tour to promote my albums. I'm on the road all the time. The fact that I have a new record is out is a coincidence.

We knew we loved making cookies and every time we did, we made people happy. That was our business plan.