Tom Scharpling Quotes

#1. In indie rock, there's the phenomenon of: "Oh, this guy seems totally normal, but he's actually crazy." There's more of that out there than you'd think.

Tom Scharpling

#2. When you're struggling with something, look at all the people around you and realize that every single person you see is struggling with something, and to them, it's just as hard as what you're going through.

Nicholas Sparks

#3. I get so much inspiration from people working hard at music, even though it's nothing to do with what I do.

Tom Scharpling

#4. My friend Phil Morrison directed a lot of my favorite videos back in the mid- to late-90s - all the Yo La Tengo videos that were funny, a Juliana Hatfield video. He was such an influence with me, and I wanted to do a video the way Phil used to do videos. I did that for Phil.

Tom Scharpling

#5. You had to account for every move, arrival or exit. In the world there was a conspiracy against improvisation. It was only permitted in jazz.

Anais Nin

#6. My day job is writing for television. So I've been on enough sets, and I know how things work.

Tom Scharpling

#7. Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind.

Abhijit Naskar

#8. I always have a lot of respect for people who do things. Even if it's the worst garbage on earth.

Tom Scharpling

#9. We give lip service to acceptance, as though acceptance were enough.

Octavia E. Butler

#10. Look, you couldn't pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people's work and who never puts themselves on the line.

Tom Scharpling

#11. The funny thing is just the collision of genres, taking one medium and trying to ram it into another medium, whether it fits or not.

Tom Scharpling

#12. Creeps get rewarded for being creepy.

Tom Scharpling

#13. In Spain there were no TV rights for Formula One.

Fernando Alonso

#14. I love doing the show more than anything. It's truly the most satisfying thing creatively that I've ever had in my life.

Tom Scharpling

#15. Channel 4 are a great bunch of people to work with and the crew are lovely. Working at ITV was like being in the court of Caligula.

Paul O'Grady

#16. I will say, the performers in the musical are some of the most super-talented people I've ever seen.

Tom Scharpling

#17. We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.

Paul Washer

#18. I keep thinking the bad guys will win in the end and take it all away, but somehow it all seems to keep working.

Tom Scharpling

#19. I'm Here All Weak might be the strangest comedy album I have ever heard. But I've listened twice, which is more than I listen to 90 percent of all comedy albums, so I think I love it?

Tom Scharpling