Someone Quotes

If someone were to ask me before I made the NBA, you going to have to go through all this, you're going to have to sign your soul away to play in the league, I still would have done it.

If you're going to be with someone, you're with them, you're committed to them. I'm not sort of flitting around.

When you're really close to someone, they can make fun of you a lot and get away with it. But they sort of poke you in all of the right places.

Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it.

As an actor, the second and last ones were interesting for me. Because those parts had the most change in playing someone who was both light and dark, sort of Jekyl and Hyde.

It's always an interesting sort of adventures that gets someone into a movie.

If I hurt someone, if I were to accidentally poke someone's eye out, I would laugh. And then I'd say, 'I'm sorry, I really do feel bad,' but then I'm on the floor rolling.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Sooner or later we're all someone's dog.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

When someone picks up one of my songs and records it, I'm a flattered man, it's a blessing to me.

You know, songs often have a very coloured past. They might have something about them but it still doesn't work, so someone else adds a bit, and someone else adds a bit so perhaps one day I'll know its full history.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

Many people think of me as a perfectionist, someone who polishes and shines each song and performance. I've always been bothered by that assumption.

I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.

I am not greedy, so I would gladly give a song to someone else to sing if it makes more sense.

When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else.

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.

Music can help you through any kind of emotion. It can help you through a break-up, make you dance, or help you realize or understand something about yourself... and if I can sing a song and make someone feel those things then I will feel like I have made a difference.

But I know I have a son who doesn't listen to anything I say and if he hears the same thing from someone else, sometimes it has a little more impact.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

Sometimes what someone else does is really not what you expected them to do, which to be honest, sometimes doesn't work.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.