Quotes About Passion

When it comes down to the music, it's just you and the microphone. It's not you and the record execs.

That's why I like the indies: because I like being who I am. I get to be who I am in the ring, on the microphone, everywhere. It's great. I never have to get out of character because I am Matthew Riddle.

There is so much more than just what you do in the ring and what you do on the microphone.

We never enter the studio unless we feel like, right now, if these are the songs we record, that we would have an album that we're proud of and we're excited about. And we put everything under the microscope and examine it the best we can to make sure that we're prepared.

Linux people do what they do because they hate Microsoft.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.

When I was 7, I started playing with a club. The only grass on the field was in the corner. There was no grass in the middle! It was just sand.

I've always been in the middle of making my own movies, so taking acting jobs that take me away from that has been impossible.

I write screenplays in the middle of the night.

When I was in middle school, that's when I first started making beats. I was maybe 14, 16, something like that.

When I was at the end of middle school and the beginning of high school, I fell in love with hockey in a serious way.

I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing.

I was constantly involved in music and theatre all through middle school and high school.

I always wrote songs. Elementary school, middle school. It didn't feel more creative than speaking. It was just normal to do that.

'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte has been my all-time favorite book since I was in middle school.

I started playing this game in the backyard, I started playing this game in middle school and going to go practice without any fans, without any sounds.

Being a middle-class family back in the 1970s meant we only had one TV... and it wasn't in your room... so when I was 8 years old, I began developing a passion for reading history, and it's never stopped.

I've played midfield my whole life.

I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.

If it was up to me, every show would start at midnight, and I'd give people the best of me.

I grew up a geek. I added comedy to it midway through high school.

I'd be just as happy being a midwife. That's my ideal job.

If I'm going to do something, I might as well go for it.

I'm not driven by the mighty dollar.