Menu

 Authors
A B C D E F
G H I J K L
M N O P Q R
S T U V W S
Y Z
Get Socialize
My Account
Make Free Wallpaper

" Quotes and Sayings About me

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

Once Happenstance Twice Coincidence
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

Beginning Begin Circle Come
  Favorite Make wallpaper

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.

Adversity Always Bit Bore
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The worst time was 1983. Love and life and everything went wrong. I reached absolute rock bottom. I saw the Minotaur at the bottom of the abyss. I learnt of the harshness of the world and its impartiality to human failure.

Absolute Abyss Bottom Everything
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I began my writing life as a poet, so poetry has always been fundamental. I evolved from poetry to journalism to stories to novels. But poetry was always there.

Always Been Began Evolved
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

Good Hearing People Reason
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The poem is never complete in the mind. It emerges, and then it's like an act of unveiling. The unveiling is the longest and most difficult part of it.

Act Complete Difficult Emerges
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.

Artists Deal Dream Dreaming
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

Best Call Higher Like
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a hopeless romantic who listens to love ballads and doo-wop songs all the time.

Hopeless Romantic Love Time
  Favorite Make wallpaper

At the heart of 'The Famished Road' is a philosophical conundrum - for me, an essential one: what is reality? Everybody's reality is subjective; it's conditioned by upbringing, ideas, temperament, religion, what's happened to you.

Conditioned Essential Everybody Happened
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Courage Follow Heart Intuition
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool.

Couple Seem Really Records
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I just get things done instead of talking about getting them done. I don't go out and party. I don't smoke, drink or do drugs and I'm not married, that leaves a lot of time for my work.

Smoke Married Work Drink
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it.

Instead Talking Appreciate Arrogant
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I've always seen it as the role of an artist to drag his inside out, give the audience all you've got. Writers, actors, singers, all good artists do the same. It isn't supposed to be easy.

Singers Artists Role Audience
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.

Nice Lapdogs Poems Embracing
  Favorite Make wallpaper
A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.
People Time Want Show
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm most in my element on tour, with a gig that day, like today. I'm on the road where I am supposed to be. I will be where I'm supposed to be at nighttime, on stage, in front of people, doing my thing.

Nighttime People Thing Supposed
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

Rich Bed Wonderful Something
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I mean I appreciate fan mail and that the people like what I am doing but I can't answer it. If I would answer 25 letters a day I would be just a guy answering mail and not an artist anymore.

Answering Mail Anymore Letters
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Being an artist is dragging your innermost feelings out, giving a piece of yourself, no matter in which art form, in which medium.

Medium Matter Giving Art
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work.
Communicating People Through Work
  Favorite Make wallpaper

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me.

Nobody Touch Truth Long
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Yardstick Quality Excellence Expect
  Favorite Make wallpaper

What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?

Mean Able What Go
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Woman Creativity Destroy Judge
  Favorite Make wallpaper

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

Weird Standing Real Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Again, you can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Connect Forward Future Trust
  Favorite Make wallpaper
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.
Stage Minutes Fright Remember
  Favorite Make wallpaper

The blues is losing someone you love and not having enough money to immerse yourself in drink.

Money Love Enough Losing
  Favorite Make wallpaper
To go forward you have to leave something behind.
Forward Leave Something Behind
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Mirror Morning Today Answer
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Management is about persuading people to do things they do not want to do, while leadership is about inspiring people to do things they never thought they could.

Convince Separates Entrepreneurs Perseverance
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.2

Belongs .Own Mine Feeling
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Travel Backpack Bunch Clif
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

What Does Matter Fate
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Truth Sometimes Feels Hurts
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Listen to me. We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?

Listen Dent Universe Life
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.

Work Hate Love Someone
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Highway Stumps Year Wonder
  Favorite Make wallpaper

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

Laugh Happens Myself Screw
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Burn Special Better Smell
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

Impress People Effort Time
  Favorite Make wallpaper

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Problem Solution Elegant Layers
  Favorite Make wallpaper

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Favorite Life Money Precious
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.

Mellower Angry THings Over
  Favorite Make wallpaper

I guess, topic to topic, you could consider me a left-leaning person.

Topic Left Learning Person
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Get closer than ever to your customers. So close that you tell them what they need well before they realize it themselves.

Customer Close Need Realize
  Favorite Make wallpaper

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

Life Hit Faith Brick
  Favorite Make wallpaper