Quotes About Relevance

It is the things that happen to you which no one else knows about that make you important in life.

I'm not a very fancy person. I've been a writer a long time, and right now 'The Hunger Games' is getting a lot of focus. It'll pass. The focus will be on something else. It'll shift. It always does. And that seems just fine.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

You'd better have something good to say if you've got a roomful of people who've paid to see you.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

Just the idea that no matter what Thor is up to he comes back to Earth is something special.

We're saved somewhat by Google. You can - when you're all sitting around the table desperately snapping your fingers in the hopes of remembering the name of that movie that you can't remember the name of - you can make people think that you are not as old as you actually are because you have the technology to find the answer.

A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral.

I'd be interested to read Gull's paper on it, and I wish Alan would put it in somewhere. It gives him a relevance to our times, which he doesn't otherwise have. Gull, I mean, not Alan.

If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

A five-year shelf life in Chicago is almost equivalent to five to 10 somewhere else.

Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply.

I'm not going to make a song just to make a song. The day that I make an album, it's so that people really know what Bad Bunny's about.

Many pop songs seem to be more potent now than in their heyday.

I remember hearing songs from the Mother Love Bone album, and hearing Alice in Chains, and feeling like this is more than just a fad or moment.

I had all these singles come out within a two-month period, and then nothing for almost two years. You start to feel a little irrelevant. You realize how many people there are trying to be songwriters and how competitive it is and how political things can be.

As soon as you become complacent your show gets canceled.

If you really have something to say, sooner or later it will be heard. And if you're lucky you'll still be alive.

The worst part of my life is newspapers are still alive - sorry, I had to say it.

I have never gone out of fashion. And do you know why? Because I never sought it. When you don't seek it, it's always with you.

You don't that often see writers being sought out when there are matters of great moment to discuss. And I think that's a loss.

I've always sought to get after something that's foundational in people. That comes through my faith, through my belief in life, through trying to hit something that's true every time. I think that's really where you move people, when you touch on something that's true, that's not based on fluff or based on a moment or a movement.

The greatest thing is nobody cares that I'm fifty years old. They only care what I sound like.

My thing is you just have to try to feel young and stay young. Obviously you get a little older, but I still want my music to be young. I don't want to sound like an old dad onstage, so you just have to write music that sounds young.