Quotes About Desire

For me, I've always wanted to be a nun. I mean, I think about what it's like to be a nun. And I've always been fascinated with nuns, and I have a nun collection, I've been collecting nuns for 20 years. And I have a song that I wrote, 'I Wanna Be a Nun,' when I was 25.

It's a drag not to have your own plane, man. That way, you could go where you wanna go when you wanna go.

One day I was like, 'Mom, you wanna sign me at Sony?'

There are many dreams which I never wanna wake up from. Actually, I don't like waking up, full stop. So no matter what the dream is, I just don't wanna wake up and get out of bed.

Hey, you gotta love a gangsta girl. Even the suburban and preppy girls wanna be gangsta girls. That's the whole gimmick to it. Everybody wants to be a gangsta girl.

I wanna be bad sometimes - I wanna rip everything apart, -but it comes on less and less. Doing all this music stuff is very good for it.

I'm not sure, exactly, why someone would want to move to S.F. or N.Y.C., even. I would only wanna live in L.A. or a tiny town like Provincetown or Palm Springs or Guerneville or something like that.

Our fans - they wanna see you, so give the fans what they want.

As a kid, you always wanna play for either the Lakers or Boston just for the rivalry alone.

I'm not as articulate as I'd wanna be.

As soon as I'm in the studio for too long, I wanna be out on tour.

I was, like, 'I really wanna see an Eric Rohmer movie take place in a Bert I. Gordon universe.' Where there's a story going on that's about, you know, loss and desire, but with a giganticized-animal element.

It was just one of those things that, you know, you get to the NBA and have success and you just wanna play against the best, you don't wanna play with the best.

I don't think it's bold to say we wanna win and I don't have a hard time saying that.

I don't want be an underground DJ - don't get me wrong - I just wanna share my music with everybody.

I would wanna be in the sequel to 'He Got Game.' I would definitely want to be like, in the part two of that movie.

I guess everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame, and they want to be heard, and they wanna talk and chat, and I see people at parties doing this and I think to myself, 'What are you doing?'

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

People sometimes turn out to be almost the opposite of how they present. It isn't because they're trying to fool you or because they're hypocrites. It's because they badly want to be that thing, and so they'll try to be it.

You can't make someone learn something - you really can't teach someone something - they have to want to learn it. And if they want to learn, they will.

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Discipline is remembering what you want.