Quotes About Passion

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

For a long time, I worked in film and theater, but reading started when I was much younger. I was always a reader.

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything.

I can do one or the other. Lovemaking or thinking. But not both at the same time.

This has got to be the greatest school for lab bands in the country. It's great because Leon Breeden and his staff have devoted their lives - not just their time and talent - to build it.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

I spend most of my time writing.

Im always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, Im always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. Its like my job is my vacation.

I've been into music for a long time. I started playing drums when I was 8 and piano when I was 10, then bass and guitar when I was 18.

I know if I did that [career as painter] all the time I would get tired of it.

I wrote from the time I was four. It was my way of screaming and yelling, the primal scream. I wrote like a junkie, I had to have my daily fix.

I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing.

In my time at St. Mary's College, drifting out of sports because it was something that began to feel really finite. And I could see that I didn't have the passion to sustain a career in sports.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.

I love hearing strong, confident beats in music because I love to dance. At the same time, melody is really important to me because I love singing.

I wish I was making shoes instead of reading or watching movies, which is what I do in my free time.

I've got so much I want to do, and not a lot of time to do it in. People say to me, "You really shouldn't do so many records", because it actually harms your career.

Do what you love and you'll always love what you do. I've found that that's true most of the time.

And much as I enjoy writing and creating stuff, I don't enjoy it so much that I am willing to give up any time that could otherwise be spent performing.

It's so important to me to make the music right that I didn't have time to be intimidated.

You can't take a vacation from speed. I probably could have taken more time off and not driven in all the different disciplines, but I wanted to drive, drive and drive.

What will always remain is love, passion and family time.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

When I was 13 or 14, I started devouring novels; literature took quite a while to take me over, but it caught up just in time to save me from becoming a mathematician.