American Quotes

Maybe I am a jerk sometimes. Maybe I'm not. I think most people are kind of a jerk once in a while.

I've gotten to a place where I still love to play and sing, but I don't have any ego agenda left, outside of just wanting to stay in a creative place and play music. I much prefer to sing for somebody else, and to somebody else.

I was a nervous young man. I wanted to do so many things. And I was so enthusiastic and earnestly in love with so many things that I tried too hard. I tried really, really hard. And I made a lot of mistakes. I was afraid of a lot of stuff. And I kind of feel bad for that person I was.

I think that we live in a time where it's easier to be suspicious of dedicated men and women, people dedicated to their craft, because the world around them inspires them to be lazy. It inspires them to be negative. It inspires them to be snarky.

I think it would be wrong to consider 'Ashes and Fire' a love album. The record is obsessed with time. I believe that there is a kinder view of the self on this record.

I think I've been incredibly raw my whole career. A lot of people spend a lot of time trying to look cool and spend time being guarded and putting up walls. I just never had the time. It seems more honest to say, 'Hey, this is who I am.'

I routinely never discuss my marriage. It's nice to have things in my life that are totally mine.

I have found in black metal the lyrics are profoundly beautiful... a pathos and mythos at the same time.

Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it.

Collaboration has become really integral to my process. I play music so that I can spend time with my friends and communicate in that way. I experience so much joy in that process, because, you know, it's those times of getting together and playing music and all that comes with it that are the best

Television probably has become the most evocative, widely observed signpost we have.

No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film.

You may shelve your Shakespearian plans for the present. I am going to play Peter Pan.

When I was about 15... I made my first attempt as a leading lady, and was, of course, a complete failure.

Sometimes it seems that we are successful only because we have not tried hard enough for our best. We do the hard thing, and one day we succeed, and many things are made plain to us.

If I have smashed the traditions, it was because I knew no traditions.

I've changed my mind about the interview. I shall never give interviews.

I had very little confidence in myself as an actress.

Genius is the talent for seeing things straight.

Life is so fresh, life is every day so new if we are fighting, only for the best. Sometimes I think the only real satisfaction in life is failure, failure in your endeavor to do your best.

Don't be afraid of failure; be afraid of petty success.

Where annual elections end where slavery begins.

Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people.

America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.