Quotes About Perspective

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

I was so stupid when I was young. I thought that everyone should share my feelings and my sadness about the state of the world, the stuff you have when you are 16 and are asking if God exists.

I didn't really like playing free safety. I didn't like being in the middle of the field.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was.

I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.

If we don't have the actors, or you get the sense that some of the other people involved in making the movie don't necessarily see the movie the way you see it - all those elements, for us, we like having those things feel like they're moving in the same direction.

You know, I think when I was young, I was just always worried about how I was going to fit in, what I needed to do to be better. I think now, as you get older, you kind of think more as a team concept of, 'How do I get everyone on the same page?'

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person. That is natural.

You know, people understand fear and opportunity. It may look different, but it's really the same thing.

For me, comedy and drama are all the same thing.

There's only so many things to sing about, so what's going to make a song appeal to you more than someone else's is just a unique way of saying the same thing.

Adults will not necessarily laugh at the same thing as their children.

Whenever you work with someone who you idolize, you realize... he's just a person trying to make a movie as best he knows how. And that doesn't look so different from other people trying to do the same thing.

If you're making a film, you've got to have one eye to the audience and one eye to what excites you about it, and sometimes it's not the same thing.

Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

I don't expect for people to like the same things, so I don't feel a need to force people to understand who we are.

The sane are madder than we think, the mad saner.

I haven't got a problem with sheeple calling me crazy. What's sane? What is crazy?

I don't read reviews, good or bad, just for my own sanity.

I'm just gonna talk about being Nigerian-American. I'm gonna talk about being single. I'm gonna talk about what happened to me on the train today. I'm gonna talk about so many other things that, as a comic, you're able to talk about because you see the world in sarcasm.

I have friends who are so sarcastic but I never view it as mean.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

Satire makes people learn something more than being lectured.