Quotes About Passion

When I was about 15, I picked up the guitar and learned how to play by going through Beatles chords books. I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog.

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.

Art is the communication of ecstasy.

News - communicating news and ideas, I guess - is my passion. And giving people alternatives so that they have two papers to read (and) alternative television channels.

The moments when I first made something, like when I first wrote a song please me so intensely. Everything else after that is just the act of communication.

Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such burning, complex communications is a miracle to me.

Why we do what do matters. When we lose our why, we lose our way. We inevitably get lost when we don't know why we are doing what we are doing.

I am such a gearhead. In my recording studio, I personally engineer and edit everything on computers.

There is something sexy about a computer nerd.

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

Low-level programming is good for the programmer's soul.

If I had not studied music, there would be no Macintosh computers today.

So I just always drew. But never took that as a career path. I ended up in the computer business, and found myself as the vice president of sales and marketing for a computer accessories company.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

I breath wrestling. It's in my blood. I have kind of a confidence when I walk.

Envy is a passion so full of cowardice and shame that nobody ever had the confidence to own it.

Positive obsession is about not being able to stop just because you're afraid and full of doubts. Positive obsession is dangerous. It's about not being able to stop at all.

I'm one of the more positive cats, but when people go off about everybody wanting to be a DJ, I don't doubt them either. I understand their point as well.

My day jobs... I knew I was bad at those, so I didn't really have the confidence to think that I could do comedy. But I knew I hated the day jobs.

Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself.

Music has given me a career. But even if it doesn't become yours it teaches you confidence and allows you to express your creativity.