I just kind of, like, put stuff together. I don’t really try to make it seem like a ‘look.’
When you – when someone dies in your family and you think you’re over it, and then you wake up in the morning and it hits you, ‘I won’t ever see my brother again. I won’t ever see my mom again.’ And it just kind of hits you like that.
I’m kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.
Your body – or my body – is just kind of stupid. Like, your body doesn’t know whether you’re acting something because it’s happening or whether you’re acting it because it’s in the script.
When people recognise me they just kind of go ‘Hi how are you,’ really kind of cool you know.
The ‘Hercules’ role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.
My father was a singer. So it just kind of happened that one Sunday while my dad was singing, I just walked out and stood next to him, and I started singing the song that he was leading, and I sang it in perfect pitch.
Unless you’re from Cleveland, northeast Ohio, you really don’t understand. It’s a sense of pride that we have. You just kind of root for the teams in that area.
I took piano lessons when I was really young, like five years old, and I didn’t really enjoy that very much. It was kind of too strict. So when I was probably 11 or 12, I started playing guitar and just kind of taught myself.
Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don’t want that to affect me too much.
I don’t have a real recipe with measurements for my chicken stew. I just kind of make it up as I go. I made it for the first time one Christmas when I came home from college. It’s guaranteed to cure a cold.
I immediately understood the general air of humiliation that comes with trying to do something as ridiculous as be an actor in Hollywood. It’s just kind of an embarrassing endeavor.
For me, good films and good books are irreducible to a lesson. You can’t just kind of translate them into one statement. On the contrary, the more you do that, the less wisdom in art there is.
I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for ‘Galavant.’ But ‘Galavant’ was quite a wide casting call. I wasn’t recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.
I just kind of transitioned right out of the dance world into the music industry. I started writing and I just fell in love with the whole process.
I don’t really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can’t start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That’s just not how my songwriting works – it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.
Whenever the heat’s on, my whole life, I’ve just kind of learned to focus a little more.
I was not really worried about what people thought of me or how offensive my jokes were. I was just kind of saying whatever I wanted, and that gave me the reputation of being this crazy, loose cannon, you know, psycho guy. It still kind haunts me to this day. Like, ‘Oh, Shane Dawson – that guy’s nuts.’
This sport definitely saved my life. I was messing up and headed in the wrong direction. I was never a bad kid or anything like that. I just, you know, like many people, just kind of wanted to rebel and to do something different.
It’s important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It’s about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.
I think the fact that we don’t really… that the world really doesn’t acknowledge how bad and how detrimental colonialism was; that people don’t really try to explore it, you know, in popular media and news articles; that… that it’s just kind of glossed over as this thing.
We’re parents first, and once you have kids, everybody knows that you have priority lists. Number one is your family and everything else just kind of finds its place.
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
So many times I’ve encountered people who are just kind of like, ‘Yeah, Nigeria,’ and, you know, thump their chest and seem very sure of, like, being Nigerian. And I’m just kind of, like, I wish I could be that sure.
It’s pretty cool just to see the support we have. It’s unmatched, Kansas City and the Chiefs Kingdom, the support they have for us. For me to just kind of be in the community and see those people is always a good thing.
When I have a bad game, I watch the film and just kind of remember everything.
I feel like I’m just trying to pave my own lane and just kind of make my own sound.
I’m just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what’s going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it’s some aspect of myself that’s coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.
My hair – it’s baby thin and feathery and drives me crazy no matter what I do with it. It’s weird because you see people with thicker hair that just kind of stays put, but if I’m in any sort of weather, I look like Bill Murray in ‘Kingpin’ when it starts to all come unleashed.
Sometimes you don’t realize how unhappy you are in a situation until you are out of it, because it’s just kind of day-to-day life.
I think the people get that I’m just kind of an anomaly in a certain way.
You know I used to sit there and I’d go outside and play ball and everything, but now in my free time I just kind of lay back and relax because this atmosphere is so busy and stressful, so anytime I can sleep, you’d best believe I’m sleepin’.
I keep a journal and just kind of take notes. I don’t really so much sit down and write songs – I just take a lot of notes, and sometimes I sit down and put them all together.
He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories.
So, we just kind of created our own thing and that’s part of the beauty of Athens: is that it’s so off the map and there’s no way you could ever be the East Village or an L.A. scene or a San Francisco scene, that it just became its own thing.
If we’re at a lunch table, I’m going to always sit with the girls. That’s just kind of how I am. I always gravitate towards women. I know how to communicate with women.
Some friends of mine bothered me for a long time about getting on the social networking pages. They were close friends that I liked to mess with, and I think that I kind of enjoyed for a while that it bothered them so much. Now they’ve just kind of given up.
I feel like every time I start up, it’s like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go. But there’s just that few days of frustration to get to that point.
There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
You guys own the Muppets, and you’re just kind of sitting on ’em. I really love the Muppets, and I think I know how to bring the franchise back.
You just have your teammates and yourself out there to pick you up, so just kind of shows you how strong you really can be.
I feel like people want there to be this mystery between film and theater, but I just kind of went where I got jobs, you know?
I just kind of went into the blue-collar workforce at a really young age and discovered music, in terms of being a musician, around the same time. The good news is, I was probably 17 when I knew that’s what I was going to do with the rest of my life, no matter what that meant.
The U.S. Open was a huge moment in my career. It was one of the biggest stages, and for me to be calm and collected throughout the week and just kind of hang on and tie for fifth was huge for me mentally.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
In the NFL, there’s never really that moment where you’re like, Hey, I made the team. Or: Hey, you made the practice squad. You just kind of show up the next day and go to work. Nobody really says anything. You just kind of go to work.
I’ve always just kind of been a single-minded person.
I just kind of went from being a standup, one-man band, to then kind of breezing back and working with other people. And now I’m just trying to be a legitimate guy who pays the rent, you know.
Depending on who we’re playing, it’s just kind of, like, a little starstruck. You know, because these are guys that… I’m playing against Tom Brady or Russell Wilson, Andrew Luck, guys like that that I’ve been watching since high school, that’s been doing crazy things.
We’re just kind of dark as humans, generally.
When I do write, it happens really easily. I’ll just kind of sing along to whatever I’m playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
