Quotes About Transformation

When I was 15, I changed my name legally. I think it was largely due to my struggle about being gay. Everything just didn't fit, and I was trying to find things I could identify myself with, and it started with my name.

The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken - he would be amazed at the changes in my song writing.

It's all the stuff I've been through in my life. From family struggles, people doubting me, things I went through as a child and going to prison, they all played a factor in who I am today. It really made me a better person. Going through those situations can make or break you as a human being.

There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past.

I love the idea of coming into a struggling franchise and seeing if I can help them win. First off, I hate to lose. At anything. Secondly, who doesn't want to be the guy to help turn something around?

People write me off, and yet then, when I fight people, my opponents have a completely different opinion of me afterwards.

This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

Chaos in the world brings uneasiness, but it also allows the opportunity for creativity and growth.

Crisis creates opportunity.

The game is changing with songs like 'Earned It' as opposed to it changing me.

It's more difficult for me to get into a character in the lead-up as opposed to leaving it.

Entrenched bureaucracies are always opposed to fundamental changes.

Some actors can create characters and leave them at 'Cut!', but I work the opposite way and drag them out of me. For me, it's about fixing your fabric to fit the role.

I love different roles, just getting into it, something that's the complete opposite of who I am.

Quite the opposite. I might fall on my face, but I feel born again.

'Breaking Bad' - I've heard that question phrased in many directions, and it always means the same thing. It's when someone can't... when a decent person can't take it any more. They just kind of turn and go in the opposite direction.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

Believe me, the intellectual revolution is going on, and that has to come first before you see the political changes. That's where I'm very optimistic.

Back when I was an Islamist, I thought our ideology was like communism - and I still do. That makes me optimistic. Because what happened to communism? It was discredited as an idea. It lost.

We're in a period of revolutionary change. I'm optimistic. One's self changes, and then the world changes. It's going to begin internally, not externally.

All of us are looking for an outside ordeal that will internally change us.

My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.

Growth comes from chaos, not order.

We have to evolve, we have to change, and in order to do that, we have to initiate the change.