Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours.
Don't Take Anything Personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.
People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.
I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.
Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.
Always take your job seriously, never yourself.
I never read anything in print about me. It started with not reading reviews and with the greatest respect to my publicist here, I never read interviews. I was there when I gave them. I never read reviews. I was there when I did the jobs - so I'm totally immune. I live in a bubble.
I should say, I don't write about myself or my life. So for me, in fiction, it's always been about what I can dream up, that feels far away from me.
I've never concerned myself with the issues. I'm a political mechanic.
When I run into disappointment - say, for example, not getting a role I'd hoped for - I just try not to take it personally.
When I read, I'm purely a reader.
I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.
I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
Everybody makes bad decisions. I am sure I have made my share of them over 40 years of service. Or I have made good decisions and have been overruled. The real challenge, when you are overruled, is to remember who the boss is and don't take it personally.
I didn't like being a name attached to a book.
What my art probably lacks is a kind of passionate humanity... There is no sensuous relationship, not even the noblest, between myself and the many.
Coaches have plans and structures, and if you're not in those plans you shouldn't take it personally.
I like to write about things that don't reflect exactly on my life.
When I finish a song, I never feel like I want to restrict its life. I feel that once I've done something, it's out. It's in people's ears, cars, headphones. It has its own journey.
Sometimes my characters are not myself.
The fact that I like to make characters doesn't mean that I like to watch my characters being made, my performance.
I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.
people in general are totally unable to detach the personality of a writer from the products of his thinking.
