I've tasted the dirt side. I've tasted being broke. I've been in the dumps, I've lived in motels as a kid. I want a different opportunity for my children. I never want them to see those things.
I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot.
I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.
Conventional is not for me. I like things that are uniquely Flo. I like being different.
The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
Being human is being a lot of things at the same time.
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
Being proud and being nationalistic are, for me, completely different things.
Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.
Going to school is cool, being accountable is cool, being responsible is cool. Those things are the cool things to do.
When I was younger, I used to be super, super shy. I still find myself being scared of things.
I certainly would absolutely never do what some of my American colleagues do and object to religious symbols being used, putting crosses up in the public square and things like that. I don't fret about that at all; I'm quite happy about that.
I have built already seven very large railway stations: one in Italy; two in Belgium; and in France, and in Switzerland, in Portugal, and also in the United States. And what happens is that stations are not things that come from one day to another, it takes many years.
Somehow, we have come to the erroneous belief that we are all but flesh, blood, and bones, and that's all. So we direct our values to material things.
Being able to draw means being able to put things in believable space. People who don't draw very well can't do that.
Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do.
When making any record, a producer has a list of things you hope an artist brings to the studio. Songs that are strong even without the bells and whistles.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.
