There's nothing in the Constitution that says the President stops being President in his last year.
It's the combination of the intimate and the public that I find so exciting about being poet laureate.
The best thing about being Children's Laureate has definitely been all the children and teens I've met.
Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.
Whether it's being a leading man, making TV shows, being with my family, I've learned a lot.
The Depression did more to me than being a little Lebanese kid did.
Music is cyclical, but I've never thought of the music I make as being so off the wall or left field that it wouldn't always have an audience that would relate to it.
I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
I was a communist, but being left-wing was fashionable. I was no different from thousands of middle-class kids.
I can't legislate a song into being; it just will not happen for me.
I would do a Byrds tour or a Byrds record in a minute. I miss that band now. I've tried to convince Roger over and over to do it, but he's not interested. Music isn't something you can legislate into being.
I've been accused, many times, as a writer/director, of my pace being too leisurely and too long.
One of the risks for anybody in the lending business is that being conservative can harm your competitiveness.
When I was 16 or 17, I saw Lenny Bruce being taken to jail. They took him off stage because he talked about race.
Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.
Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.
I learned things by being in Lester Flatts' band, and I learned things by playing with Johnny Cash, and I learned from Pop Staples. I'm a sponge.
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound, believing Christian.
Since narcissism is fueled by a greater need to be admired than to be liked, psychologists might use that fact as a therapeutic lever - stressing to patients that being known as a narcissist will actually cause them to lose the respect and social status they crave.
My memories are of denim. I remember being 12 in my Levi's. Wow!
