Son Quotes - Page 62

I always thought songs are movies for the ears and films are like songs for the eyes.

The same thing can be both good and bad. Whenever you speak of good, bad is also present. The world is a mixture of both. There is not good without bad. They are both sides of the same coin. Both are necessary. We have been given free will and discriminating capacity to select what is beneficial to us and to avoid what is detrimental to us. Even Cobra poison can be used as medicine.

I'm going to spend my life writing poems, turning them into music that will affect people and touch their hearts. I'm going to write the songs that people can't write for themselves.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

He who prides himself an extraordinary person by his deeds is rejected by the world; he who has independent ideas is hated by the mass.

I wonder how anybody can think his personality changes with his success. I've had quite a bit of success but I feel that I'm just the same person as I always was.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

I admire those who trust and are trustworthy.

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

My son Jack just got out of rehab, he's 17 years old and he got hooked on Oxycontin and I'm just a little pissed off that he never gave me a few.

Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself.

I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.

Probably "Mrs. Potato Head" or "Training Wheels". "Mrs. Potato Head" because it was the hardest song to write and it took me a while to finish it and feel good about the lyrical content. But I've had that idea in my head for so long, especially the visuals - pulling apart a Mrs. Potato face and how that doubled as a meaning for plastic surgery. "Training Wheels" because it's the only love song on the album.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

You are the only person you can actually change

I am happy now, to recall that I was not only his son but his companion, and whenever there was a hunting expedition or any other pleasure, I was always with him.

Occasionally you get that one person that says "I really like that one part of this joke" and you go, "Oh thank you that's my favorite part too." But no, in order for it to be authentic hopefully you have jokes that everyone can just get on board with and then you have a few things for yourself.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Let your heart beat for music. Don't be a DJ for the wrong reasons, do it because you have a passion for it.

I am a woman. I was devastated, and I felt that excluding me for the reason that they gave was unjust. I have never asked for any special consideration. I only wanted to compete.

Currently we breed cowards and snitches. Whored society of sons of whores!

Anybody that forms a group, writes songs and releases records and says they don't care if people like them are complete liars.

One more lesson like that and I might just do a Weasley.