I found my sound through exploring. I was in the studio yelling, going low, trying things, and that's how I found that I have a lot of sounds.
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.
Democrats are a big tent party. You know, I'm not trying to impose an ideology on all, you know, several hundred members of Congress.
If you're not trying to be real, you don't have to get it right. That's art.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
It's one of the few regrets of my presidency that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.
It's a violent world we live in. I don't agree with trying to hide that or cover it up.
In some ways, I'm still a kid from Missouri and Oklahoma, and I'm trying to find my way.
I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself.
We're hardwired for connection. There's no arguing with the bioscience. But we can want it so badly we're trying to hot wire it.
I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is.
