Am Quotes

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.

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.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

I don't think many actors are that good, to be honest. I certainly don't think I am.

I am for those who believe in loose delights, I share the midnight orgies of young men, I dance with the dancers and drink with the drinkers.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.

My father wasn't around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, 'Why me? Why don't I have a father? Why isn't he around? Why did he leave my mother?' But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, 'I don't know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?'

I want people to think of me as a nice person. I really am so blessed. All of this has been a great experience and I thank the American public so much for putting me in this position. I appreciate every second of it.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.