Quotes About Passion

I started songwriting at around age 12, and that was it. I never really stopped. Nothing else ever really crossed my mind. It's truly the expression of who I am.

Songs, and songwriting keeps me inspired, moving forward.

To try and learn how to be a singer, a really good guitar player, a really good pianist, it's always lagged a bit behind learning to be the best songwriter I could possibly be because songwriting comes naturally to me.

I sit down and I write and I make sure that it follows the code of Songwriting Craft 101.

During the whole time in Sonic Youth, I was happy to put my energy into that. It would have been very difficult to do a solo project.

Sonic Youth is one of my favorite bands.

I got a record deal with Sony, and I really just put acting aside. But it's a love.

I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.

I am different as soon as I am on the pitch, because I had to fight so much and work so hard to become a professional footballer, so I have to give everything that I can.

'Gorgeous' was one of those records that, as soon as I heard the beat, I was like, 'Man, this is the one. This is that 'This Can't Be Life' Kanye beat.'

As soon as I paid the mortgage off in 1988, I started racing cars.

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.

I started to write as a child as soon as I could read, or even before, when my mother read me Beatrix Potter at bedtime. Writing seemed to me to be the only sensible way to live and be happy.

I am a person who has many dreams. But as soon as I accomplish one, I move on to the next. That's my fatal, absurd nature. Human beings are slaves to our dreams, and I am, too. Now I think I just want to share my musical proposal in its entire form.

I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me.

I hope to actually get back to painting someday... soon. I sort of transitioned into cartooning from painting.

Soon, I knew that I would become a chemist, rather than a composer.

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

No habit or quality is more easily acquired than hypocrisy, nor any thing sooner learned than to deny the sentiments of our hearts and the principle we act from: but the seeds of every passion are innate to us, and nobody comes into the world without them.

Football is like recreation for me. I'd sooner be playing five-a-side than going out to eat or shopping.

Sooner barbarity than boredom.

That's a part that's always a challenge for athletes: trying to keep the passion alive while knowing it's still your job. There's no question that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, I'll be pretty burned out. And when that time comes, then I'll take a step back and take a look at it and see if I want to keep going.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

The sooner you start writing songs, the sooner you'll get better.