American Quotes

I can play punk rock, and I love playing punk rock, but I was into every other style of music before I played punk rock.

All I wanted to do was ride skateboards - I wanted to be a professional skateboarder. But I had this problem. I kept breaking half of my body skateboarding.

We never worry about the big things, just the small things.

Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.

A lot of people think that punk rock musicians don't know what they're doing.

Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

A leader is a person you will follow to a place you wouldn't go by yourself.

Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.

Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.

Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth.

I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became a vegetarian about 25 years ago, and I did it out of concern for animals. But I immediately began having more energy and feeling better.

You can't fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights.

Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they've had their pets spayed or neutered.

I'll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there's no substitute for experience. I don't care how much natural talent you may have... In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.

I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known.

I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.

The women in my family are all super-emotional. The catchphrase in our family is 'Listen to my words, not my tears.'

Nobody ever thinks a song is about them. Well, not when it's mean. When it's a good song everybody thinks it's about them. And when it's mean, nobody thinks it's about them.

My hairstylist taught me a trick for my hair. You section off your hair and put them up in these crazy little knots and then it looks like you curled your hair. It's saved me so much time 'cause on the road you don't have time or plugs to plug your curling iron in.

It's so easy to just rip someone's work apart.

If you take your fear and mash it into something that's actually useful, then it doesn't feel like it wins.

I'm writing about emotions.

I'm of the ilk of writers that feels you have to be open to the inspiration.

I'm never gonna be somebody who's gonna fall down from the sky on a trapeze. That's not me. I really want to make sure that my focus stays on connecting with the audience.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I'm a traditional singer-songwriter. I have a more organic sound.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

I would like to look back on my body of work and be proud of each record in its own right, but as a whole, I want to continue to grow and move forward.

I was a fat girl growing up and had to change schools because kids were so mean.