Really Quotes

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

Anyway I feel myself a bit on the edge on the art world, but I don't mind, I'm just pursuing my work in a very excited way. And there isn't really a mainstream anymore, is there?

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

The nerds are the ones that make the films and do loads of other really cool stuff in their life.

Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.

The people I grew up around who I really liked were quick on the draw. It always just wowed me. And my mum would make weird funny comments. I can see in myself her self-deprecating, hippie humour. I can't take myself too seriously.

I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Smoking sucks! The one thing I would say to my kid is, 'It's not just that it's bad for you. Do you want to spend the rest of your life fighting a stupid addiction to a stupid thing that doesn't even really give you a good buzz?'

It is really rare to find someone you really, really love and that you want to spend your life with and all that stuff that goes along with being married.

If you're open to it, New Orleans will teach you about yourself, but if you want to hide from who you really are, the city will help you do that, too.

I like to talk about my obsession with french fries because I don't want people to think that 'Let's Move' is about complete, utter deprivation. It's about moderation and real-life changes and ideas that really work for families.

Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.

Only the gentle are ever really strong.

I went to art school when I was little. I took ballet lessons. I played a little kick ball. I was sort of into everything because I had too much energy and I didn't know where to put it. When I was a preteen, I got into singing, and became really obsessed with it.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Being a rock star is like being a cult leader - you really have to be in your own religion.

I haven't been to rehab, I don't do anything eccentric - I'm really boring.

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I really liked the snake that breaks out of the cage in the beginning of the movie. I saw it in real life, and it was really cool. Really big and fat. The owls are cool as well, but you can't really pet them.

I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

I always think, when there's stuff that people don't like, I always say that if I have another success, I'll enjoy it more, but you don't really.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.