Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
It's a sad fact that a lot of those countries who haven't been involved in the war in Iraq have taken far more responsibility for rehoming people displaced by the war than Britain has done.
The sad fact is that the same terrorist scenarios, if they occurred in five different States, there could be five different sets of responses to the American people. We need, at a minimum, a level of coordination on communicating threats to the public.
I always think of the live show first, where the song is gonna go in the show. That's why they aren't sad songs. When I play, I want to make people happy, not sad. It's such a pleasure for me to do what I do, and I want other people to feel some form of that pleasure, too.
I like to write sad songs. They're much easier to write and you get a lot more emotion into them. But people don't want to hear them as much. And radio definitely doesn't; they want that positive, uptempo thing.
I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.
I never went out to make the music that people would like. I mean, I tried, because every teenager tries to do that. But in my heart, I'd always come from gigs where I played upbeat guitar covers and I'd start writing sad songs on the piano.
Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.
It's very simple, I just tell my sad story, and people weep.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
The sad truth is that mass migration, whatever the colour of the skins of those involved, upsets and worries indigenous people, especially the poorest.
The sad truth is, there's more Walter White in me than I'd care to admit, because if I truly was as kind as people think I am, I wouldn't be able to write Walter White.
Saddam has committed many crimes against humanity and against his own people.
I didn't see Saddam Hussein as being quite the danger that some other people did.
I actually found it very moving how destructive depression is. I was really saddened by this burden people have to handle.
The whole romanticized 'sad clown' thing, we gotta get rid of that. That has to go! That's just getting sick people to voluntarily stay sicker and sadder than they have to be.
People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?
I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.
