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I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.

I'm trying always to leave out what I think is extraneous. And to find what I think is the most wonderful language to make a beautiful sentence.

I'm trying my best to keep my private life guarded. It's not easy at all. Non, non, non.

I'm trying my hardest to get you so wrapped up in me you never leave.

I'm trying to be as green as I can. As an airline pilot, I have a carbon footprint that's a size 10, so it's pretty hard.

I'm trying to become a young CEO, to brand myself in television and movies.

I'm trying to be entertaining without being mean

I'm trying to be less bombastic. I love my books. I think I've done things nobody else has done.

I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.

I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

I'm trying to bring danger back in to rock 'n' roll and there are no limits and no laws and I break down every barrier put in front of me till the day I die.

I'm trying to capture something more fragile than a regular story. I love what people bring me.

I'm trying to change theater, in my own way - not just magic. I say that humbly, because I'm learning every single day. I do 15 shows a week, and every single audience I have is like a test screening for you, when you listen and go, "Really? They laughed at that?" All over the stage I have lines, written onstage, that I'm changing every single day.

I'm trying to create flesh architecture. I aim to get a sculptural feel for groups of bodies, as well as create performance art.

I'm trying to discover - invent, I suppose - an architecture, and forms of urban planning, that do something of the same thing in a contemporary way. I started out trying to create buildings that would sparkle like isolated jewels; now I want them to connect, to form a new kind of landscape, to flow together with contemporary cities and the lives of their peoples.

I'm trying to do something that I have kind've a clue how to do.

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like why aren't I happier? With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

I'm trying to figure out if I love art enough to be poor.

I'm trying to figure out what I can do creatively. It's about trying to find new things and trying to figure out voices and borrowing from things and learning as much as possible so that I have an archive of things to borrow from.

I'm trying to fly the flag for the days of electronic music where people who are making it are also building the gear because that was what was happening in the very early days of electronic music. And that spirit is one of the things that really appeals to me about electronic music so I'm putting this forward as a way to keep that.

I'm trying to focus as much on the here and now as possible. To live my life in a way that the humans that I know here on the planet Earth feel like they've been treated with respect by me, whether they're people that I'm very close to or the audience who's watching my work.

I'm trying to get more into other things, where reality is nothing but each individual's way of thinking.

I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.

I'm trying to just accept things, accept the beauty of things and the joy and positivity of things as they are in the moment and accept when it's not that way as well. Because, of course, none of it lasts forever. It's all going to change very rapidly. But that doesn't have to be a bad thing. It doesn't have to be panic-inducing. It can be just the way life is.

I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

I'm treating every day as a special one and trying to live in the moment.

I'm trying as hard as I possibly can each and every day to get my life better and better and stronger. And if I win championships along the way, so be it.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

I'm trying to be like, "Hey, dude, you're super happy, this is everything you've ever dreamed of - if you don't have somebody to hold hands with right now, everything's going to be OK, bro.

I'm trying to be really synced. It goes back to the idea that, ultimately, the reward is the work.

I'm trying to be somebody on whom the experience is lost by supplanting it with its telling. I definitely do that in medical contexts, even in trivial ones.

I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.

I'm trying to capture a moment. It's not about the singer at the microphone. I'm trying to look for, like, a moment in between.

I'm trying to change the culture in New York City; that's hard enough!

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

I'm trying to conduct only five months a year, and the rest will be composing time. I'm trying to spend as much as I can out of those months here in L.A., because for creative work, this is a fantastic place.

I'm trying to create a relationship with myself. I feel good being married to myself right now!

I'm trying to deal with ideas about histories, fame, hearsay, and how public identities are constructed.

I’m trying to do better than good enough.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

I'm trying to exploit the bestseller, in a way, but not in the sense of repeating the formula. It's just that the bestseller did so well economically that now I'm freer to do what I want to do, or to try out what I want to try out.

I'm trying to figure out the trick of working to live as opposed to living to work, but I don't know if I've quite stumbled upon it just yet.

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

I'm trying to find out what the hell we - who we are.

I’m trying to get away from roles. I used to identify myself strictly in terms of my role, but when your roles fall away, part of you falls with them.

I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page.

I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.