Do not try to live your children's lives out of your own frustrations.
In order to keep my creativity alive, I just try to enjoy life to the fullest.
Well, I try to be as funky as I need to get.
I try to use and, furthermore, strive to focus on the actual facts surrounding and impacting any issue.
I don't try to communicate with my 'audience'. I don't bother with that any more. I used to try to have conversations with people, but it's futile.
You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.
I'm a great believer in the principle of try it and work it out. If a gadget is designed well, you can easily work out how to use it. But if you can't, it isn't shameful to read the instructions.
When you expect to get into a negotiation, you expect to be faced by a guy that's going to attack you, a guy or gal that's going to attack or that they're going to try to get the best of you. Two-thirds of us, that makes us very defensive.
I try to read the game as well as I can.
I try to keep performing as much as possible - I just like to. I used to take huge gaps off between gigs, now I just like to do stand-up gigs as much as I can.
Well, for me, really, I think it was I wanted to try and clear up some of the misperceptions that were out there and fill in some of the historical gaps.
Garth Fundis is a song guy. He is in it for the right reasons; he's about the music. He doesn't ever try to talk you into recording something that you shouldn't. He gets it.
When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point.
We'll try and be very aggressive, we'll try and speed up and change gears, and we'll see who's going to win.
I'm crazy about ducks and swans and geese, so I don't eat foie gras. I try to eat organic.
I try to sprinkle a little gems and jewels in the music that people could use in their own life.
No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail.
Whenever I speak at a conference, I try to catch a few of the other presentations. I tend to stand in the back and listen, observe, and get a general sense of the room.
It's been said that Generation X should get a life. Well, in 'Bottle Rocket,' they get a life of crime. Or at least try.
