Quotes About Transformation

It's exciting to play someone who is a bit tougher than I am. I liked feeling those adjustments.

I'm trying to bring something new to the Tin Man. He may be the one without the heart, but he's the most heartfelt guy there. It's a more manly heartfelt, a 'don't feel sorry for me' - type of heartfelt. I don't want to say tougher, because that just sounds stupid. But the Tin Man is a man's man.

That '05 Ashes and where that then took me personally for the next 12-18 months was the toughest point of my career.

The toughest part was doing it in front of the world and recognizing that you had gotten to a point where if you didn't do something you were going to die.

There are times when I get really depressed, when I'm going through difficult times and when I want someone to hold my hand. Sometimes I'll think, 'Forget it. I want to be this way.' I often feel that way. But when we started the Love Yourself World Tour, I stopped having those thoughts.

I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn't know who I'd turned into.

Once you start out, you are kind of finding out who you are, and then by the time you get to the second album or you've been touring a lot, doing live shows or whatever, the sound starts to shift slightly to something that is more the true essence of what the band really is.

But the Spain which emerged around 1960, beginning with its economic miracle, created by the invasion of tourists, can no longer result in impassioned dedication on the part of its intellectuals, and even less on the part of foreign intellectuals.

One tournament can change everything for you. You never know when that tournament might be.

There are so many tournaments when I started this way. I was so shy. I didn't really play well. And then all of a sudden I found the very strong, powerful Gael Monfils.

We are living toward incredible times where the only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

We spent a lot of time making 'Transangelic Exodus' and toward the end of it, my ability and my love for music - that is, just garage music, direct and immediate - started to feel neglected.

I don't think things are moving toward an omega point; I think they're moving toward more diversity.

Getting fitter is just like getting a new haircut. It changes the way you look and also changes your outlook towards a lot of things in life.

But Jesus changes your attitude towards yourself and towards other people.

Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.

You have to grow and evolve and look towards the future.

Crisis and pressure help foster change - that's why I'm not so pessimistic towards crises.

Fatherhood has changed me and my perspective towards life.

I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.

I just thought it could make a really cool movie. It's not that it's just a buddy comedy but it's all about two guys hating each other and towards the end they're good friends. I liked that these two guys were best friends from the very beginning, and they're crazy.

Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.

Anything that's different from your own realm of experience as a human being, whether it's driving a car or a boat, or using guns, anything that separates you from yourself and leads you more towards this character's existence is a big help.

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.