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We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

You can end half your troubles immediately by no longer permitting people to tell you what you want.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

Life wants you to serve something more than yourself. When you serve something more than yourself, you are served. It's the most ironic thing in the world.

Leaders focus on what they can control, what they have, and what they want.

Of particular importance to us is the recognition... that what we want is a Europe of nations, not a federal super-state.

As an actor I want to do as many takes as I can. I wanna shoot the scene... or shoot the shot 'til they make me quit.

I was looking at people like Jim Morrison and David Bowie and Mick Jagger and I thought, Ah! I want to look like them.

If you take the approach that you want to scrape every last nickel off the table, that'll work one or two times, but after awhile, your reputation will precede you.

I know that the materials found on the streets is rich and wonderful, but my experience is that the way I am accustomed to work, slowly planning my composition etc. is not suited for such work. By the time I have the composition or expression right, the picture is gone. I guess I want to do the impossible and therefore I do nothing.

If you want God's grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing.

Everyone wants to work with the big new producer or the hot new singer. The key is to find them before they're hot.

If you want me to do things only for ROI reasons, you should get out of this stock.

The economic disasters of socialism and communism come from assuming a blanket superiority of those who want to run a whole economy.

I didnt want to be encumbered by what anyone elses abilities were, their equipment or environment or their ability to get certain products.

First be sure a thing is wanted or needed, then go ahead.

Many feel they are called to the priesthood, but what they really hear is an inner voice saying, 'It's indoor work with no heavy lifting, do you want to be a ploughman like your father?'

These are the intensities that one cannot live with, that he has to outgrow if he wants to survive. But who can help grieving for them? If the blood vessels could hold them, how much better to keep those early loves with us?

There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.

Those who say they give the public what it wants begin by underestimating public taste and end by debauching it.

It is not enough to jump if you want to reach the sky.

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.