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James Scott Artist
Adventurous

“I certainly very much enjoy acting, but I am open to anything really. I think it's important when you have those moments in life when you are not attached to something, and you are not quite sure what the next phase of your journey is going to look like, that you don't pigeon-hole yourself.”

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James Scott Artist
Philosophical

“Secrets are inherently selfish. The longer you keep them, the harder it is to put yourself in other people's shoes about them and the more irrational your thinking surrounding it becomes.”

James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
Philosophical

“I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.”

James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
Confident

“Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true.”

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
Spiritual

“I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force.”

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James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
Confident

“I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.”

James Taylor Singer-Songwriter
Spiritual

“I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Melancholic

“I think that humans have a huge capacity to carry pain and sadness. There are things that haunt us our entire lives; we are unable to let them go. The good times seem almost effervescent and dreamlike in comparison with the times that didn't go so well.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Spiritual

“Keep me preoccupied Keep me busy, busy, busy So I won't have to think I don't want to think Because it only brings me pain I just keep running away from My problems Keep me busy Give me a million things to do So I can keep running away from myself.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Confident

“I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Spiritual

“I have to keep moving I don't want to think I'm going to work all day today I don't want to stop Don't want to let my brain catch up my thoughts How will I be able to tell them that I'm a shadow A grey patch of cold rotting life”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Vulnerable

“I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Creative

“I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.”

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Angry

“Too sick and freaked out not to want a bullet for every passer by, too sick and freaked out to breathe, too sick and freaked out to care, too sick and freaked out to think of anything but the annihilation of my mind and denial of my life. So sick and freaked out that I think everyone is my friend.”

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Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Philosophical

“I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Angry

“I think we are in fact, losing free speech. We don't seem to care though. Many of us don't seem to notice. We will have to do a lot of work to bring back the American way to America.”

Henry Rollins Musician, Writer, Actor
Optimistic

“I think that America certainly has racism, I think that any industrialized country does. But when you see how many million fans Barack Obama has who are not black, it would lead one to the conclusion that millions of Americans are in fact not burdened by the albatross of racism.”