J. D. Souther
Related I never really focus on writing for other people, to be honest. Every song I've ever written was... SKYLAR GREY Art is never finished, only abandoned. , (MAYBE) I first started going to shows when I was about 16 - seeing local bands. I mean, I loved music befor... MAC DEMARCO EDDIE MURPHY EMMA WATSON When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm play... ISAAC BROCK And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that. UTADA HIKARU KAITLYN DEVER I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but ... DOC WATSON CRAIG GROESCHEL ALBERT HAMMOND, JR. I just think that I'll never have plastic surgery if I'm not in front of the camera. If you ... REBECCA DE MORNAY I always hated jazz guitar. I loved jazz saxophone but I hated jazz guitar. If I would buy an organ ... TOM VERLAINE JOAN BAEZ I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a... ELLEN DATLOW I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any m... LIAM HEMSWORTH KINA GRANNIS JOHN MCENROE When I'm at home or in the studio, I have a 1963 Martin. It's a D-28, and I love that guitar... CHARLIE WORSHAM I'd never even been to Wrigley Field. I never even enjoyed baseball that much, but I loved being... BEA ARTHUR Because you know how you say I've got to really get down and really do some training and then of... DAVID CARRADINE JAMES CAMERON LAUREN BACALL IAN ANDERSON I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm the... PAUL HOGAN I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Mostly, in song writing, my experience is that there isn't so much inspiration as hard work. You... BJORN ULVAEUS KELSEA BALLERINI I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. ... SLASH I know when I'm not dancing, and I go home, I usually work with my dad, who's an electrician... TRISTAN MACMANUS 'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that w... BARRY MANILOW I'm pretty obsessive-compulsive, and I'm very fast. I tend to not write for a long period of... ADAM RAPP BRIAN JACQUES I'd never thought about acting as a job. I was an engineer; I was in science and technology. I l... ATO ESSANDOH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. E... SLASH DAVID ARCHULETA I loved to watch cartoons and even made little stop-motion films in the backyard. At the time, I nev... ERIC DARNELL As a kid, I remember wondering why we lived in an apartment, not in a brownstone, and why we drove a... LEAH REMINI If I'm able to win the world championships when I'm not even at my best, then with another y... BIANCA WALKDEN ELLIE GOULDING Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn'... NATASHA LITTLE ISABEL ALLENDE My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cl... DAN AUERBACH I was in college, and I studied everything, but was really not good at anything until I found philos... MICHAEL JOSEPH KELLY I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even ... DANE COOK RICHARD FORD PAUL WALKER PINK JOHN KRASINSKI I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would ge... STEVE BERRY ELIZABETH WURTZEL GREGORY MAGUIRE BILLY CRYSTAL I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter... EVE GOLDEN TIMOTHY OLYPHANT I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until ... GLEN HANSARD My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was ... K. FLAY CECELIA AHERN It wasn't until my late teens that I really got into soul music and then I was like 'Ooh, th... REBECCA FERGUSON CHARLIE ROWE You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE Even as a kid, I'd have a recorder, and I'd lean it up against a TV and record 'I Love L... RANDALL PARK If you listen to my tapes, you'd hear 14 different ways to arrange the rhythm guitar behind the ... TOM SCHOLZ KATHERINE JENKINS ACE FREHLEY KURT COBAIN KATHLEEN HANNA I'm an author who likes assignments, who needs suggestions, ideas I would never have thought of ... DAVID LAGERCRANTZ LONI LOVE I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&... EMMA ROBERTS PATTI SMITH What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ... LUANNE RICE STEVIE NICKS BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN MARY J. BLIGE If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs,... ZAKK WYLDE I want to do something crazy for a part - something I'd never even consider in real life. KATE MARA ALEX KAPRANOS BILL BURR I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired ... VANESSA BROWN LAURYN HILL It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as w... TOM CHAPIN K. D. LANG TANA FRENCH PATTY JENKINS I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to... LAURA TROTT MARTIN GARRIX AVICII INA GARTEN TONY KUSHNER I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or m... CLAY AIKEN I've never drunk coffee. I'm convinced it has something to do with why my skin is good. I ha... SAFFRON ALDRIDGE CHRISTINA HENDRICKS When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his... VALERIE JUNE What I'm really looking to do is retire undefeated; I'm not sure when the right time to reti... RONDA ROUSEY AARON NEVILLE CINDY SHERMAN ALEXA CHUNG WENTWORTH MILLER
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VANCE For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other pe... J. D. VANCE Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty signif... J. D. VANCE Violence and chaos were an ever-present part of the world that I grew up in. And unfortunately, it w... J. D. VANCE Church gives people a sense of community, a sense of how to behave... social support when times get ... J. D. VANCE If it's hard for Blue America to see Red America as anything other than a bunch of dumb, racist ... J. D. VANCE There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the governme... J. D. VANCE J. D. SALINGER
I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm suppose... 
My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in a... 
I play guitar and sing when I'm not busy with school and acting. 
I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. 
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I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... 
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I surf; I skateboard. I'm from Southern California. I never thought I was going to be an actor. ... 
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