Quotes About Passion

The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put '58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.

I don't have a problem with dives out of the ring, but there are a lot of these guys who don't have anything to fall back on, and they're not making any money doing it. A lot of these guys go out there, and they're gonna break their necks at 23 years old doing things they shouldn't be doing.

The job is so fantastic, you don't need a hobby. The hobby is going to work.

You need a big ego to be an artist.

School was very important. But I needed to watch basketball.

I always felt like I needed to act. Not that I wanted to act, but I needed to. And I still feel that same way. There's an expression that I get to have in acting that I can't consciously express in my life. It has always defined me and it always will.

Being rich would be disastrous for me as a writer. I have always needed to write to pay the bills.

Sometimes you can just date without needing love, date for companionship, for passionate make-outs, for snuggling.

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

If I wasn't plagued by needing to write things, that would perhaps be a blessing.

If I do five, six records that sound great, I want it to come out as fast as it can. I don't care how many copies it sells. It's about musically moving the needle.

Needless to say, nobody is born an avid gamer.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

I got really lucky that at age 12, I knew I just wanted to be a dancing monkey in front of people and entertain them, or try to. It's amazing that at age 12 I realized what a needy life I was gonna have.

I just had the joy of taking pictures, and I never cared about my negatives. I just gave them away whenever anybody asked for them.

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.

The only foreplay I really need is for a guy to kiss my hip bone. The hip is the most erotic and neglected body part. Kiss the hip bone with your lips.

I want to work because I am too passionate about what I do. As long as my children and husband don't feel neglected, I do the balancing.

When I used to sit in the office with Jay Z and L.A. Reid... we would negotiate back and forth and discuss music. You're sitting in front of someone for hours. It's all about being passionate. Everything begins with yourself.

If I can just play, it doesn't matter where we are... Japan, Australia, or here in the neighborhood.

When I gradually realized the emotion behind it, I began playing cricket in our neighborhood, which I think everyone has.

The Hester Street Fair started off as a passion project. We imagined a space where friends and neighbors in the creative community could have a place to find an audience.

When I was a boy, the neighbours all knew who I was because I'd take a ball with me everywhere I went.

As Dortmund manager, I lived in a street, and my two neighbours were Schalke fans. They showed it every day, flying flags!