I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. That's the essence of it.
If there's a back door somewhere, I take it. I try to get about without being noticed.
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.
I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it. I'd been getting bored with the stereotyped changes that were being used. I found that by using the higher intervals of a chord as a melody line and backing them with related changes, I could play the thing I'd been hearing.
I always have a backpack. I was a poet, so it reminds me of being a backpack poet.
When we're in the studio, and we sing that first note on that record, you're committing to being a Backstreet Boy!
It's not a ton of fun being a backup quarterback.
I was really good at being a bad guy.
You know you're in a bad movie when the Catholic clergy is being played by Jews.
Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.
Even though I played national level badminton, I told my parents when I was in 10th that I was not interested in continuing. Being a model or actor fascinated me from a young age, and I even did a couple of ads when I was just eight years old.
I'm not a minority: I'm a majority of one. We all are. To call someone a minority, you give them baggage, of not being full, or not being seen as full. All of us need to be seen as full human beings.
After being a born-again punk rocker for about ten years, the whole thing started falling apart. American hardcore had become Californians in baggy shorts making jokes about being white trash, and British punk had morphed into dogmatic crusties yelling at everyone about everything.
There has come into being a kind of a Shia belt from Tehran through Baghdad to Beirut. And this gives Iran the opportunity to reconstruct the ancient Persian Empire - this time under the Shia label.
When they throw punches, the breathing, the sparring. The heavy bags being hit. All of that - it was a heavenly sound to me.
When I write 'Beetle Bailey,' I can always do jokes about him being lazy, and everyone gets it.
I was probably a little bit overweight as a child, being passionate about baked beans on toast and Cadbury's milk chocolate when I could get it.
Pate a choux is a mixture of simple ingredients - flour, water, milk, eggs - but the proper technique is essential. Unlike other doughs, the pastry is pre-cooked on the stovetop before being enriched with eggs, piped, and baked.
I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.
