Am Quotes

I am no politician.

I see the iPad as a wonderful new drawing medium, but I am at a loss as to how to make it pay.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.

The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

I am sure that every one of my colleagues - Democrat, Republican, and Independent - agrees with that statement. That in the voting booth, every one is equal.

In the beginning, I loved being famous, but now I am tired of it and I would like to go back to my freedom.

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.

Anyone who wants to know who I am can just read my lyrics - I've always written about who I am.

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one who can win it.

I am just at that stage of wondering where I go from here. I came into this business almost by accident, but now it has become serious. What started as a bit of fun, something to do other than be a model, has taken on a different career curve. I have been forced to ask where that curve is going to end up.

Oh, I will always be honest with my music. The records are black boxes for me. Like if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

I was on the board of Andre Agassi's foundation, and seeing the way it operated blew my mind. In 2002, I told my wife, I want to start a foundation to give back, I want it to be for kids in hard circumstances, and I want it to be culinary-driven, because that's who I am.

The secret to understanding me is, I'm not trying to be anybody other than who I actually am. People want candid, refreshing leadership. And I've always tried to go with solutions. You know, I've always tried to say, here's how we get our economy growing, here's why we get our debt under control. That's what Mitt Romney is offering.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

I am getting so far out one day I won't come back at all.

I'm not a fast thinker, but once I am interested in something, I am doing it for many years. I don't get bored.

I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily.