I think I’m basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I’ve learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. – Willie Nelson
Whether for company or isolation or just to make it a pleasurable experience, I have music in my ears all the time. I tend to listen to the same things, so I don’t really pay too much attention to it. But it’s there, and it’s nice, and I do pay more attention to it than I probably should. I think, ‘How can I use this music in something?’ – Whit Stillman
When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can’t really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey. – Yolanda Adams
Well, ‘The Wellspring’ was written from 1983 to 1986. And it had a section in the beginning that was poems that began from others’ experience. – Sharon Olds
I think it’s easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience. – Sophia Bush
A song has a life of its own. It’s an autonomous thing, separate from your own experience, almost. And the mere repetition of it means it’s subject to change; it means approaching it differently, expressing different emotional aspects of it. It doesn’t feel like wallowing. – St. Vincent
Theatre has been a part of my life since before I can remember – my dad is also an actor and a director and a storyteller who lives and works in the Twin Cities; my mom is a nurse practitioner, but she also grew up doing theatre – so, it has always been a part of my experience. – Seth Numrich
When you label so much of what happens to you as ‘bad,’ it reinforces the feeling that you are a powerless pawn at the mercy of outside forces over which you have no control. And – this is key – labeling something a bad thing almost guarantees that you’ll experience it as such. – Srikumar Rao
A woman’s life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. – Wallis Simpson
When we saw our plane on TV as breaking news, it was the most surreal experience. A lot of the women were crying. There was a gentleman who was writing in his journal and crying. Seeing that isn’t easy. – Taryn Manning
You can say what you think music is, but the only way it really is, is how people experience it. – Stone Gossard
I feel that when I began writing, I had a need to know more about the play before I got into it. I think that’s the way I was thinking. But my actual experience is that the best way to find out what the structure is, is by writing the play out laterally. You just have got to be brave enough to start without knowing where you are going. – Tom Stoppard
I think I’m very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people’s struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I’m very interested in the human animal. – Victor Salva
I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn’t have enough life experience at that point to write a movie. – Todd Phillips
Starbucks was founded around the experience and the environment of their stores. Starbucks was about a space with comfortable chairs, lots of power outlets, tables and desks at which we could work and the option to spend as much time in their stores as we wanted without any pressure to buy. The coffee was incidental. – Simon Sinek
I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It’d be a feature, it’d be something maybe that I had in writing as well. – Stana Katic
A little reflection will show us that every belief, even the simplest and most fundamental, goes beyond experience when regarded as a guide to our actions. – William Kingdon Clifford
I remember that all of a sudden, the car felt like I couldn’t control it. It was absolutely the most horrifying experience. We rolled over, off the freeway. I think there was something wrong with the car. – Tracey Gold
Instead of watching DVDs at home, I prefer going to the cinema to get the experience. – Sunidhi Chauhan
A film should be an experience. You should feel something. It should motivate you to feel something. – Tim Reid
A lot of things you see as a child remain with you… you spend a lot of your life trying to recapture the experience. – Tim Burton
I think my experience as an actor helps me to write anything. It certainly helped me to write ‘August Osage County.’ It helps me to write any play that I’m working on because I think one of the things I do well is write good roles for actors. – Tracy Letts
I’m getting asked a lot, ‘You don’t have kids, so how do you know how to act like a mother?’ I know nothing could compare, and I haven’t had that experience, but when my niece was born, I felt like I would jump in front of a car and die for this little person I didn’t even know yet. – Winona Ryder
My cares come from a very selfish place ’cause in reality I’m young, and I haven’t had the experience to be mature yet. – Vince Staples
Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life. – William Graham Sumner
Making movies is a very different experience in a lot of ways. It’s difficult when you’re used to owning the copyright and having a landlord’s possessory rights – I rent my plays to the companies that do them and, if I’m upset, I can pull the play. But the only two directors I’ve worked with are pretty great. – Tony Kushner
I have no doubt that for some to become a Christian may involve an experience of ecstasy. Yet I do not think such an experience is necessary for someone to be a Christian. – Stanley Hauerwas
Video has become much more social, and as a result, there are many opportunities to use video as a way to connect people, to give them opportunities to play and participate, to make things together and have a shared social experience. I think we are just at the beginning of really exploring what social video is and what we can make of it. – Ze Frank
There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past. – Umberto Eco