Quotes About Passion

I get a lot of my inspiration from the Jackson 5 and Luther Vandross.

Of the members of the band, I'm the biggest Michael Jackson fan.

The first video that made me want to get into entertainment was Janet Jackson's 'That's The Way Love Goes.'

We want to make music, and we won't become jaded by the business aspect of what we do.

I love jam bands, but I still like a three-and-a-half-minute rock song.

I love the game of basketball. I guess it started with 'Space Jam.' Right after that movie, I went out there to my little Flight hoop and tried to do every dunk in the movie.

In the '90s, I think I rediscovered my guitar. The Jam was obviously very guitar-based, but in the Style Council I just got really disillusioned with playing the guitar. The further it went on, the less and less I played, to a point where I couldn't pick it up any more.

To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

Comic-Con is my jam!

I can't try to write a song - songs come out of me. I have to play the guitar and if I jam a song, boom! That's a song.

I was a James Brown junkie as a kid.

James Gunn runs his set like a 12-year-old's birthday party. Every day, he is so excited to come to work.

With James Brown, I just learn the lyrics and then get out there and get funky with it and let my spirit free. But doing Charles Bradley, it's a lot of true, intimate words coming out of me that show me the picture inside myself.

James Brown is the reason I play guitar.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.

You can't hate James Brown! Who hates James Brown?

James McAvoy is one of my favorite actors of all time.

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world.

I did about 2000 covers altogether, for all sorts of books - from Shakespeare to James Bond - and I always had the idea that I must give 100%, no matter who the author was.

I love to sing - whenever I am not on set, I am usually in my room jamming out with my guitar.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I love jamming with my band because the guys inspire me every time. We all get off on each other's playing.

'Bridgerton' is something a bit like if Jane Austen met Gossip Girl' and maybe like 45 Shades of Grey.'