My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.
You have to have the right mind-set.
If not for radio, I'd probably be working at the local supermarket doing who knows what. But after I got that first break at 16, I was not going to do anything else. I had my mind set on radio one way or another.
Indonesia was colonized for 350 years. We lost our mind-set for entrepreneurship. We only become workers.
When I won the Oscar, I fell into that mind-set that this is a precious role. People everywhere were shouting, 'Show me the money!' I just didn't want anything that could parody the fact that I was like a tagline in a movie. So when Steven Spielberg offered me 'Amistad,' I said no; when 'Hotel Rwanda' came along, I said no.
You change your mind-set, and as long as you've got a good mind-set, you'll know everything is good.
When I came up with Burnley, I had my mind set that I've got a job to do in helping to keep Burnley up.
I think I have kind of have the same mind-set that Kanye West has. He just likes to do his thing.
It's not necessarily about the physical aspects when people say receivers have a lot of drops or can't catch the ball. It's that they are not focusing on the right things. That their mind-set is not in the right spot.
