I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.
The joke in aviation is, 'If you want to make a million, you'd better start with Β£10m.'
My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world.
I want to be part of the storytelling that educates people and awakens a sense of compassion in other people of the kind of people they don't encounter in their daily lives very frequently.
I've won many awards and I want more. If you want to call it hunger then I'm hungry for awards.
I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy' or whatever; if that comes, that's awesome. But I just want to be successful and provide for my whole family and get my family out the hood.
Sentimental is not bad, but itβs probably the most likely to go awry. Itβs the hardest to do and not have it end up being 'Forrest Gump' or something. Maudlin - I just donβt want it to be maudlin.
I don't lecture and I don't grind any axes. I just want to entertain.
If you want to be an artist in the long run, it isn't necessarily a good axiom to repeat formulas over and over until they're used up.
I don't want to be Babe Ruth. He was a great ballplayer. I'm not trying to replace him. The record is there and damn right I want to break it, but that isn't replacing Babe Ruth.
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.
We all have the temptation to be backseat drivers when it comes to decisions that don't work out the way we want.
Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn't want anybody's name on my backside. I personally don't like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone's likeness all over it.
I would hope somebody out there will still want to hear a Backstreet Boys song when I'm 50-something.
I listen to a lot of Backstreet Boys, NSYNC, Britney Spears - the songs just stick in your head and that's what I want to achieve with my music.
I used to want to be a backup singer. Not a lead singer, because I really can't sing.
Let me do it. You tell me when you want it and where you want it to land, and I'll do it backwards and tell you when to take off.
