Quotes about "Resilience & Adversity"

Music Is Worth Living For' is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It's also me pleading with myself to recognize music's eternal power and glory, in the face of hardship and pain. ”

One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them. ”

You either back your instincts or you hold off - and you're more likely to back your instincts if you're confident. ”

I learnt that as soon as you have a negative thought, just push it to the back of your mind. The question is, when it's you versus 11 others; can you be positive under pressure? That's what defines winners. ”

I think you could go back to any filmmaker or musician or artist, and look at what their input was in their formative years, and you could trace all the lines. ”

Sadly, my hobby is what I do for work, so I don't go off and go fishing. I go home and veg, and then I go back to work. ”

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly. ”

To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.' ”

For writers: don't hold back. Be weird. Be sentimental. Be melodramatic. Take the risk of being not-cool, not-hip. ”

I've played all these extreme guys, but playing an everyman type has its own challenges. ”