I don't think we've asked the right questions, the tough questions, at the right time, in Washington.
I don't think anyone is boring, actually, if you ask the right questions and look at them the right way.
I think we do have to take off the gloves in some areas, but within balance, and at the right time and the right way, and for the right reason and with full understanding of what the consequences of that might be.
I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.
It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
I never got lessons. I took influence from Chet Baker, Ian Dury, and Joe Strummer. I don't hear my voice and think, 'Yeah, that's a banging voice!' It's more about putting the right emotions into the right words and the lyrics than anything else to me.
Let's cut to the chase, the sharia controversy. I don't think I, or my colleagues, predicted just how enormous the reaction would be. I failed to find the right words. I succeeded in confusing people. I've made mistakes - that's probably one of them.
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and pride to benefit from what is rightfully ours. Why isn't there an enormous building in Washington called the 'National Association of Lesbian and Gay Concerns' to lobby for us?
I think in Vice and American Me I played very silent, rigid characters and people remember them.
I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
I was raised as a Catholic. I went to a Jesuit school - obviously, being from Ireland, was brought up in quite a regimented belief structure. I shed a lot of that rigidity and got a sense that there are definitely forces that we don't understand. I think 'magic.' It's a word to apply to some of those things.
Whatever you think rigor looks like, you should go up a few notches.
I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.
When you think of Rihanna's voice, you think of this whole, rich thing, solid like a tree trunk.
I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I'd love to do something production wise for her.
I'm trying to get a lower center of gravity. I think, when I play at a lower level, it helps my overall game, just my explosiveness to the rim with the ball in my hands. When I play with a lower center of gravity, my legs are always in my shot instead of playing vertical out there where I don't get the same explosion or legs into my shot.
Obviously I think offensively, spacing for me as a guy that puts a lot of pressure on the rim is going to make it harder on a defense. They're going to have to make tougher decisions, and space is going to be way more open for all the guards, too.
