Quotes About Reflection

After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

I always have a good pen with me.

I think now, whenever I write, there is nothing that will really compare to pen and paper.

Like everything, what compels one to put pen to paper is a great question.

You have moments of grief in life, and if you can put pen to paper and capture that, that's something wonderful. I can revisit actual songs about past deaths, and I know that emotion is as true now as it was then.

I always have pen and paper with me.

What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.

I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

If you have a great day at work and you've been hit with all these great ideas and there's a lot of excitement on your team, your mind doesn't turn off. For years I've kept a pad of paper and pen by me at night, because things just occur to you.

I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

I'm glad I wrote them when I did because I think if I were to write my first novel now, it would be a different book, and it may not be the book that everybody wants to read. But if I were given a red pen now, and I went back... I'd take that thing apart.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

The disparity between the haves and have-nots was always blatantly obvious to me, and it's that exact gap that drove me to start writing and pick up a pen. I wanted to explain and understand the world around me because it was easy to see it was corrupted.

We have so much inspiration. It's everywhere... So I always have a pen with me and a laptop, and I write everything down.

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.

I am not as dangerous as I used to be. I am not as effective in the penalty area any more. That is something I have lost and something I have to get back. I used to score better goals, great goals. But something strange has happened.

When I got lucky enough to be successful as an actor, and I got involved in the anti-war stuff and gay rights movement, there was always this thing eating at me about the death penalty, because that was, to me, the bottom line. That was the anti-life - by definition - position, and I didn't understand why we did it.

One must always draw, draw with the eyes, when one cannot draw with a pencil.

The best ideas come from sitting down with a piece of paper and a pencil.

I learned one of the very important lessons in life in the 9/11 attacks. It's good to have a plan for your future; it's even better to write your plan in pencil.

A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.

I always write in pencil, so I can erase.

No one can penetrate me. They only see what's in their own fancy, always.

I grew up thinking that it was immoral to idealize the past because, in the past, there was slavery and no penicillin.