Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.
If I could play the ukulele like Zooey Deschanel, I would find my own personal M. Ward, and we would do a side album; but I don't, you know?
I think much of my own quest in life is to figure out how best to cope with my own uncertainties.
I jabbered too much in class about all the Russian writers whom I admired for being, among other things, uncouth and somewhat humorously melodramatic, such as Gogol and Dostoyevsky, just as it was in my own household when I was growing up.
I have my own foundation, which I just started, called Believe Anything Is Possible, which is going to be an organization to help the underprivileged.
I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
In 1998, I started a blog, something I could control very easily and update at my own whim.
All I can go on is my own value system.
I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.
I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
In my own family, my mother had my sister when I was 15 and for various reasons, I was extremely involved in raising her.
I have made my own choice, which is vegetarianism, but it's not the choice I'm imposing on anybody else.
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.
I still direct my own videos.
My own experience is that the best outcomes are reached when opposing viewpoints are clearly and strongly presented before decisions are made.
I have a lot of that in my own life - passion, vigour, and what comes coupled with that.
I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.
Basically, what I do is place a stop, generally 10 to 20 percent below the current price, whenever I buy a stock. The exact level depends on my own analysis of a stock's trading pattern. If a stock violates this stop, I'm out.
I definitely prefer to write under my own volition and see what happens.
