- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Long Quotes
On patience, process and playing the long game.
Several quotes here describe how long real work actually takes: commissioning a television show, learning from mistakes only years later, or thinking generationally about where humanity stands. For a related theme, see our Long Time quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
- Follow
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- Nov 07, 2020
The long march of Western civilization from pantheons of gods for every taste to one God for all has been thrown into reverse by celebrity worship to give us a plethora of ancient deities to follow.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
- Compromising
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm one of those people that is up for most things. When I was offered to sing at the Oscars I was like, 'Yeah, I want to know what that's like!' I'm always curious to know what things are like - as long as you're not compromising who you are.
- Florence
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- Nov 07, 2020
I made music with my friend, who we called Isabella Machine to which I was Florence Robot. When I was about an hour away from my first gig, I still didn't have a name, so I thought 'Okay, I'll be Florence Robot/Isa Machine', before realising that name was so long it'd drive me mad.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never broke up. As long as I'm living and as long as Chuck D is living, Public Enemy is always going to be alive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.
- Fun Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've worked with so many different artists, and I'm always willing to expand and do some new fun things as long as the music is fun and the fans appreciate it worldwide.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020