Ian Axel Quotes

#1. When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.

Ian Axel

#2. I have a girlfriend and she really keeps me grounded. Makes me normal.

Ian Axel

#3. There are people we look up to, like Lady Gaga and what she's built. She's not afraid to own who she is.

Ian Axel

#4. Producers on Broadway approached us with an original script after relaunching ourselves as 'A Great Big World,' and wanted us to write the music. They asked us to make the music we would sing if we could, and so we can go a little crazier. We refer to it as 'our music on steroids.'

Ian Axel

#5. I feel that when Chad is in the room, I can tap into this other thing where music comes from. I don't know. It's just this really magical, special connection and relationship.

Ian Axel

#6. They want you to think that darkness or evil is only something that gets inflicted on you by the outside world, but I know better, and I think the freak does, too. Sometimes the darkness lives inside you, and sometimes it wins.

Alexandra Bracken

#7. The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

Bill Gates

#8. The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books (not even textbooks) emphasize enough its fundamental character.

Felix Alba-Juez

#9. I'm a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

Ian Axel

#10. Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.

John Flavel

#11. Lady Gaga is not afraid to own who she is.

Ian Axel

#12. My inner motivation is to make the world a better place; the bad guy and the good guy think the same thing.

Mandy Patinkin

#13. We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.

Ian Axel

#14. We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don't have much sense.

Madeleine L'Engle

#15. Speak louder than the words before you, and give them meaning no one else has found. The role we play is so important.

Ian Axel

#16. I love writing different things.

Anthony Horowitz