"Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found."

“I've never been ready to do a single thing I've ever done in my life. I haven't been prepared enough, haven't studied enough, haven't known enough. You can never be ready. There's just so much to know.”

Source : "Lyle Lovett: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 23, 2012.

“Today's cinema is a global art form, it is impossible to make movies for a market the size of France, representing no more than 4% of the world's total.”

“When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up.”

“The second 'Postal Service' album is threatening to become the 'Chinese Democracy' of indie rock. It will come out eventually, or maybe it won't.”

“You are the Master of your Fate, the Captain of your Soul.”

“I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.”

“The phrase "global citizen" always gets tossed around with my work, and part of it is that, clearly, talking about being a global citizen is the only way we can talk about participating in globalization without feeling like assholes.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

“There are some things we can control and others we simply cannot. And our ability to distinguish between them is critical to our happiness and wellbeing. Sometimes unexpected stuff will happen to us or around us. Our true power lies in our response.”