Something Quotes

Doing something that you love regardless when it’s a blockbuster movie or you’re writing a pop song or trying shamelessly to succeed in something is not selling out.

To do something very common, in my own way.

Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.

For anybody who’s ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

I figure if I take my children’s work seriously, maybe they will too. And it reinforces the idea that art is not something alien and esoteric. Anyone can make art.

It’s funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it’s fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.

You can’t make up something that you don’t feel. I didn’t make it up. I just opened my mouth and it existed.

I like workplace shows and White House was a very glamorous workplace to set a show in; it appealed to a sense of romanticism and idealism that I have.

Make something beautiful of your life.