What’s the difference between a personality disorder and a personality? You know? That’s what I wanna know!
I’m so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, ‘Ayyyy!’ No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.
The kids look at me, ‘Ah, you’re my hero.’ I want to teach those kids. ‘Hey listen, God is my hero. He died on the cross for my sins, and He’s the one. That’s how I wanna live – like Him – and I want you guys to do the same thing.
People always ask me who my role models are and who I want to be like, and I don’t wanna be like anybody; I wanna be me. I look up to a lot of people, and they have had great influences on me, but I wanna be original and different.
I think I always wanna write comedy because that’s what feels truest to me; it feels closest to life as I know it, so that’s what I want to reproduce.
You’ve got to trust the audience, and hopefully if you do interesting work you’ll get an audience that are interested and engaged. But if they go out thinking, ‘Ra-ra-ra, I wanna be like Malcolm Tucker,’ then at a certain point you can’t take responsibility for that person. That person’s just a moron.
I’m insecure about things. I’m not afraid to say it, though. Even when my publicist is like, ‘Go on the red carpet,’ I don’t wanna go.
I don’t wanna be a rock star. I don’t believe in rock stars. If you really examine what goes with being a rock star, I’ve avoided that really well.
I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy… I wanna scare people.
If you wanna see me in full ’80s glory, I did one season of ‘Halt and Catch Fire.’
For me, it really is about the self-acceptance… the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.
I don’t wanna be labeled as just a defensive player or a rim protector or someone who can dunk. I feel like I can do everything.
I wanna keep rapping, I intend to. It’s good to mix it up, but I’m still gonna stay true to rapping.
I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do – ‘I wanna do this and this and this’ – but I don’t. I enjoy being surprised – indeed, often ambushed – by a role.
A lot of people say, ‘I gotta win my awards.’ I just wanna make great movies.
You can’t pee like a puppy if you wanna run with the big dogs.
The racism, the sexism, I never let it be my problem. It’s their problem. If I see a door comin’ my way, I’m knockin’ it down. And if I can’t knock down the door, I’m sliding through the window. I’ll never let it stop me from what I wanna do.
Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it’s like, ‘Yes, let’s do it.’
I know, when I’m walking out on the court before for the game, it’s like, man, if you wanna compete, here it is. It’s coming. That’s something I really enjoy.
When I was a kid. I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I’d always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13. Crappy rock bands, avant-garde things where we’d, like, ‘wanna go against the norm, man.’
When you’re in a band, a marriage – whatever, it’s kind of the same deal – there’s a lot of things that you see, and people trust you with information about their lives. Call it a ‘bro code’ or whatever you wanna call it, but there are certain things you do not tell. At least, I don’t.
That punk approach of ‘We don’t wanna get big’ is really a bourgeois thing. It’s not a tactic of people that actually have been successful at changing things.
You don’t have to listen to those mean girls. They’re just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don’t wanna admit it to anybody.
I don’t wanna be liked just because I’m pretty.
If there was no ladies, I wouldn’t wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music – without those three, I wouldn’t wanna be here.
It’s just weird because I can’t believe that all those people wanna come see me. Like, there’s so many. So, it’s just crazy to think about, but it’s also really awesome.
My favourite word? I think, delicious, because it sounds so delicious. You say it, and you just wanna eat a chocolate bar.
Sometimes you wanna be James Bond, and sometimes you wanna be Marlon Brando until you realize you can’t be either!
I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
Nowadays, everybody wanna be weird. We know how to manifest being weird.
I’ve got some crazy, stupid big goals. I really wanna headline arenas. I wanna have such a big crew that we’ve got to have 20 or 30 buses on the road because that’s how big the show we’re putting on is.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
I just wanna hoop and be out there with my soldiers. Go to war. Try to, to the best of my abilities, help us win.
It was kind of like, ‘Who’s gonna wanna watch a show about four fat dudes in a pawnshop?’
People like me for who I am, I don’t wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.
I wanna be an artist on the whole; I don’t wanna be within a genre.
I kept writing all these ballads; they’re me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don’t have something I can dance to?
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. ‘Wanna Say’ is one of the few love songs I’ve ever done.
When someone gets passed that mic, and they know deep down inside that they wanna say something or sing something or produce something, but they don’t do that, it’s like killing your musical life.
I didn’t think anyone was going to buy ‘Do You Really Wanna Hurt Me?’ It was really personal, not a hit record, I thought. I wanted us to sound completely different. Shows how much I knew.
I love artists like Jon B, but I don’t wanna be compared to anybody. I’m just doing my interpretation of rnb and how someone like me should be doing it.
I always choose roles that are, you know, hopefully different from the last role. I don’t wanna do the same thing over and over again because that’s, well, first of all that’s no fun.
I wanna be more like the Rihanna kind of, Beyonce kind of thing, but I don’t want to compare myself to anybody, because I wanna be somebody new, too.
I know where I wanna end up. I’m ready to go, and I’m ready to learn. I’m ready to build, and I’m ready to establish my longevity.
I think my thing is that… I don’t know. And that’s why I don’t wanna sing about ‘This is me, this is who I am’ because, like, even the question, ‘Tell me about yourself’ – what are you supposed to say? ‘Ooh, I’m a happy girl, but I’m sad, too’? People are so complex.
I wanna say I’m detached, but I’m an Aquarius that’s sensitive as hell. That’s dope, though.
I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don’t have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.
I started being president when I was 37. I don’t wanna be out – I’m gonna be out of the presidency at 42. I really don’t wanna be in jail at 43, right? So I mean I’m not here to steal money.
I’m different. Like, I recognize that, and I need to make sure that I am as prepared, that I understand, that I’ve done everything I can, knowing that people are gonna wanna say, ‘She doesn’t belong.’ I wanna prove to them I do.
If anything, I get most upset because I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don’t think much of the rest of the newspaper.
I think Justin Bieber and Zayn have both been listening to me a lot, and they basically wanna be me.
I don’t want be an underground DJ – don’t get me wrong – I just wanna share my music with everybody.
It’s the type of thing where, if you gonna battle somebody to prove your greatness, you wanna go to somebody that shares that same seat with you.
No, I have to really focus, especially when I’m writing because I wanna be good at it.
After a while, you just don’t do things you don’t wanna do – that’s the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won’t be a waste of time.
I was so terrified for so long about what people think about my sexuality, and I didn’t wanna find myself in a position where I was losing my fans and couldn’t do my job.
If you wanna make a lot of money, you should hire me.
I’m looking for three belts. I’m looking to do something that’s never been done in this sport. I wanna go down to 155. I wanna go up to 185 and take the belt.
You’ve gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you’ve gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
Me, it was always about being able to bounce around to where I wanna be. Like, with ‘Arular,’ people always say it’s so political, but I think 50 per cent of the album is not very political at all. It’s just really a shouty, shouty girl thing.
