Quotes About Reflection

We need a day of the dead. That's a perfect celebration.

I don't get the conga line started. I'm not a great choice if the goal of the evening is just a celebration. But if we're going to talk about what's been going on lately, then I can bring something to the table.

I'm not a big celebration person, I don't need a big party. I just want to hang.

I never really looked up to celebrities when I was young.

I don't like being a celebrity.

Celebrity never really served me that well; it serves other people well.

Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye.

I don't want to be a celebrity.

I don't really want to be a celebrity.

By nature, I sit alone in a room and type... My goal was never celebrity.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

I don't have a cell phone.

When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.

I've always loved cemeteries since I was a kid. They're very calm.

When I went to the 2007 Europeans with the Under-21s, we were based at Oosterbeek near Arnhem and I went out on my bike a few times. We went over the bridge. I went to some of the war cemeteries there: very, very moving.

I censor myself all the time.

I used to be a bit of a show-off at school, but I've calmed down now and learnt to censor myself.

All my books center around death in some way.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

We all have times that we get off center.

Life gives you so many alternatives to choose from, and... you judge these as best as you can until something comes along like 9/11. And it's the central event of my lifetime, so I knew I had to write about that.

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

There's no one who has been living for centuries.