Bill Clinton

To start things off, IDRlabs suggests that social psychologists are projecting their intellectual interest onto Clinton due to his high IQ, implying that Clinton himself lacks intellectual interests himself, saying "Social psychologists who work with the Big Five don’t always understand IQ as well as they should and equate it with intellectual interest, as, for example, some of Bill Clinton’s biographers have done. That’s likely because social psychologists are often high-O people themselves, so they read their own values into the analysis." I would disagree with that as there is evidence that Clinton *did* have an inclination towards intellectual interests (an intellectual engagement and curiosity that is separate from pure ability and intelligence):

 

Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "During his first campaign, Clinton had mentioned that his favorite book was 'One Hundred Years of Solitude.' ... I thought he had said it simply to pull in the Latin vote [but] after greeting me on Martha's Vineyard, he at once assured me that what he said had been quite sincere. ... When we asked him what he was reading, he ... mentioned a book on the economic wars of the future, author and title unknown to me. ... He asked us what our favorite books were. ... Clinton said [one of] his was the 'Meditations of Marcus Aurelius,' and Carlos Fuentes stuck loyally to 'Absalom, Absalom,' Faulkner's stellar novel. ... Clinton, in homage to Faulkner, got to his feet and, pacing around the table, recited from memory Benji's monologue ... from 'The Sound and the Fury.'" [Source]

 

Bob Woodward: "Clinton ... had an unusually broad national network of political, media, and academic friends, and displayed an obvious fascination with ideas." 

Clinton: "I like long books, raced through 'War and Peace' [by Tolstoy] at 22." [Source]

Haynes Johnson: "Clinton likes to quote Machiavelli." [Source]

 

Clinton: "[I would've liked to meet] Mark Twain. I would want to know what he believed and what was show." [Source]

Rubenzer: "He liked pondering ideas and theories." 

 

Rubenzer: "Clinton ... took much ... pleasure in solving brain-teasing puzzles. ... Clinton was [very] much ... prone to value open-mindedness."

 

Harold Evans "Clinton has had a problem finding space for his books in the White House. ... He is [a reading] omnivore."

 

Secondly, IDRlabs has stated that "Clinton’s raw intelligence is legendary, but few people ever accused him of being prone to deep introspection." I would like to contend that there were indeed people who described Clinton as "introspective":

 

Haynes Johnson: "[Clinton] is a remarkably analytical, introspective person. To a degree that is quite stunning. ... Clinton ... was extremely, remarkably thoughtful and introspective." [Source]

 

Jerry Tarde: "[Thomas L.] Friedman had interviewed Clinton several times before at the White House ... he found the president most expansive and even introspective." [Source]

The Boston Globe: "The 42nd and 43rd presidents contrasted in many ways. ... Clinton was introspective and complex [while] Bush [was] breezy and unburdened by nuance." [Source]

 

Steven M. Gillon: "Clinton was introspective." [Source]

 

Now, one could argue which  

 

but it does challenge the idea him "not exhibit[ing] a preference for introspection." 

"Barack Obama, by wide agreement, has a very high level of introspection, but has often been faulted for being indecisive and 'stuck in his own head' for this reason."

Bob Woodward: "Clinton would not fully commit to run. ... He set August as a personal deadline for a final decision, but the deadline slipped. Clinton had no campaign manager and not much organization. He appeared locked in a perpetual debate and argument with himself and with dozens of friends and advisers. His thinking never seemed to go in a straight line. He was unable to bring his deliberations to any resolution."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rubenzer: "Clinton was very talkative, wordy, and verbose."

 

Time Magazine: "[He was] notoriously long winded."

Politico: "[He was] known for his long-winded and meandering speeches."

 

Edwin Dunaway: "He talked a good game and he had big ideas but he never followed through."

Clinton: "I feel like a character in a novel. I feel like somebody who is surrounded by an oppressive force that is creating a lie about me and I can't get the truth out. I feel like the character in the novel Darkness at Noon."

The Washington Post: "French President Francois Mitterrand and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl were quoted by aides as saying they could not believe Clinton wanted to affix his name to [his initiative]. Calling the plan 'novel, bizarre and unprecedented,' spokesman Jean Musitelli said Mitterrand judged it to be 'something like a UFO.'"

 

Bob Woodward: "Stephanopoulos was practically jumping out of his skin. He had seen Clinton act like this before, disliking, discarding, or wanting to change what he read. His initial reaction was always to ... force more discussion and debate." [Source]

 

 

Walter Isaacson: "Clinton's finished product evokes another quote from Twain: Like Wagner's music, it's not as bad as it sounds. His life is too fascinating, his mind too brilliant, his desire to charm too strong to permit him to produce a boring book. The combination of analytic and emotional intelligence that made him a great politician now makes him a compelling raconteur."

 

 

 

"Bill Clinton enjoyed an extended adolescence that allowed him to experiment with new ideas. ... He led a cosmopolitan life during the late 1960s, traveling around the world. ... His curiosity, both intellectual and personal, drove him to experience first-hand as much of the ferment of the decade as possible. He surrounded himself with a diverse group of people—antiwar protestors, civil rights leaders, future gay rights leaders, and feminists.’"

He enjoyed talking to everyone, but had a special affinity for reaching out to people who were different, or somehow out of the mainstream. 

 

Walter Isaacson: "Clinton's ruminations on his complex childhood are even more richly layered than Jimmy Carter's delightful childhood memoir, An Hour Before Daylight. Particularly striking is how revealing Clinton is about his insecurities. Back in high school, he recalls, he wrote an essay that still rings eerily accurate: 'I am a living paradox -- deeply religious, yet not as convinced of my exact beliefs as I ought to be; wanting responsibility yet shirking it; loving the truth but often giving way to falsity. ... I detest selfishness, but see it in the mirror every day.'"

 

 Walter Isaacson: "Clinton's psychological introspection, rendered in lingo from personal therapy and couples' counseling, is another reason his memoir reads like a period piece."

 

 "I wanted to become a politician because I was fascinated by people, policy and politics."

 

 

https://www.jfklibrary.org/events-and-awards/kennedy-library-forums/past-forums/transcripts/a-conversation-with-former-president-bill-clinton

 

https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/bill-clinton-right-wing-is-weaker-027617 

Gibson's type discussion

One point against Se dominant for Gibson is that he isn't very literal in his communication in the way an Se type wont to do, in fact, he was rather quite associative in interviews:

Gibson: "If you can maintain a neutrality [while approaching a character] ... then [you can] branch out from that, add on ... It's like Mr. Potato Head, slap whatever you want on it, a mustache or, you know, different attributes of a character. It's much easier to paint on a bare canvas than one that's already got a picture on it." 

Gibson: "I guess it gets almost to a question of like kind of a religion. Mecca for filmmakers is this industry here, it's where there's the biggest pool, it's the watering hole where everyone comes to see, to measure up, to include themselves in the pool, their talent, and that collective thing, it's like you go to the smorgasbord to feed your need to work and your need to tell stories and your need to express yourself [in] whatever form that is."

Gibson: "[Rising to overnight stardom is] like being a blind man walking into the woods. It takes a while to come to terms with that, this new world that you're having to exist in."

Gibson: "[Being a first time director is] like being tossed in a very big body of water and told to swim to shore. You have a general idea of which direction the shore is, but you may not get there for a long time."

Gibson: “[While improvising with Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg,] I felt like a spectator at a Beijing Ping Pong match with the flip-flapping back and forth between them that I was trying to keep up with."

Alex Simon: "'Laid-back' is simply not who he was. His quick wit was palpable, with a mind that moved with the speed and precision of a Ferrari racing engine. Gibson was intellectual."

van der Hoop on Ne

If intuition is combined with an extroverted attitude, then the individual will form intuitive judgments of what goes on in the outer world and will be apt suddenly to discover connections between things without being able to explain them in a very elaborated manner. Extroverted intuitive perceptions and the actions and expressions resulting from them are sometimes surprisingly justified later on by events or by an indirect process of reasoning.

While sensation is chiefly concerned with the empirical actuality of things, intuition sees what is of noetic and ideational importance. Intuition is especially acute in discovering all the various possibilities of ideational development and activity. Even in cases where intuition is not the leading function, it is often capable of finding a solution where no other function could succeed.

Jung writes of intuition that if it predominates, all the ordinary circumstances of life seem to be enclosures out of which intuition must find a way. It is often seeking for new paths and new developments of life in an outward direction; all circumstances soon appear to the intuitive mind as a prison or as an oppression, which causes a longing for liberation.

Things in the outer world seem at times to acquire an exaggerated value when they can be made use of for the purpose of a solution, liberation, or the discovery of new possibilities. But as soon as they have served as a bridge or ladder, they seem to have lost all value and are cast aside as unnecessary lumber. A fact is only valued insofar as it may contain new potentialities that may outgrow the original fact and serve, in turn, to liberate the individual.

Possibilities that arise suddenly become compelling motives to the intuitive mind, and it will sacrifice for them everything else. In contrast with the advantages of this rich variety of possible activities, we find the disadvantages of such qualities as changeableness, fickleness, and lack of harmony.

Robert Downey Jr 's dominant Ne

Rolling Stone: "A conversation with him is a deep-space particle storm, parentheses-within-parentheses, digression upon digression, a nonlinear but not nonsensical cosmic outpouring. Downey refuses to follow any kind of script, never quite coming into focus, always in thrall to another idea. That’s the essence of his mind and spirit, and, arguably, of his genius as an actor."

Rolling Stone: "Downey’s ... meta-mega conceptual answers to basic questions ... make him hard to interview in any conventional, structured way. ... Downey has the kind of mind whose doors of perception are always unlatched, open to all sorts of farfetched possibilities. He’s fascinated by the fringes of science and conspiracy – whether there exists a language of birds, for instance. Or what the military’s really been up to at Long Island’s Brookhaven National Laboratory, where, Downey says, researchers have been conducting secret experiments to provide 'supersoldiers' with an apparatus capable of generating 'three levels' of cloaking: 'Hidden,' 'Invisible' and 'Gone.' Does Downey really believe such out-there stuff or is it, in his words, a fanciful 'hydroponic sonic' amusement? That’s unclear and probably irrelevant. He’s a mental omnivore. He’ll eat almost anything, ideawise, or he’ll at least chew on it."

Elon Musk and the INTJ Archetype

Walter Issacson: "[By the time] he was 3 ... he was [already] so intellectually curious."

Walter Issacson: "Compounding his social problems was his unwillingness to suffer politely those he considered fools. He used the word 'stupid' often."

Walter Issacson: "He was a very determined kid."
 
Kimbal Musk: "He has this fierce determination that blows your mind and was sometimes frightening and still is."
 
Walter Issacson: "Elon also had a tendency to be spacey and wander off on his own, oblivious to what others were doing."
 
Walter Issacson: “He didn't have the emotional receptors that produce everyday kindness and warmth and a desire to be liked. He was not hardwired to have empathy. Or, to put it in less technical terms, he could be an asshole."
 
Walter Issacson: "[As a child] Elon developed into a night person, staying up until dawn reading books."
 
Walter Issacson: "Elon developed a reputation for being the most fearless [out of the cousins]. When the cousins went to a movie and people were making noise, he would be the one to go over and tell them to be quiet, even if they were much bigger. ... He was also the most competitive of the cousins."
 
Walter Issacson: "Reading remained Musk’s psychological retreat. Sometimes he would immerse himself in books all afternoon and most of the night, nine hours at a stretch. When the family went to someone’s house, he would disappear into their host’s library. When they went into town, he would wander off and later be found at a bookstore, sitting on the floor, in his own world."
 
Walter Issacson: "The single-minded passion of the superheroes impressed him."
 
Walter Issacson: "Musk read both sets of his father’s encyclopedias and became, to his doting mother and sister, a 'genius boy.' To other kids, however, he was an annoying nerd. 'Look at the moon, it must be a million miles away,' a cousin once exclaimed. Replied Elon, 'No, it’s like 239,000 miles, depending on the orbit.'"
 
Walter Issacson: "When he reached his teens, it began to gnaw at him that something was missing. Both the religious and the scientific explanations of existence, he says, did not address the really big questions, such as Where did the universe come from, and why does it exist? Physics could teach everything about the universe except why. That led to what he calls his adolescent existential crisis. 'I began trying to figure out what the meaning of life and the universe was,' he says. 'And I got real depressed about it, like maybe life may have no meaning.' Like a good bookworm, he addressed these questions through reading ... existential philosophers, such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Schopenhauer."

Walter Isaacson: "He was more interested in late-night philosophy discussions about the meaning of life. 'I was really hungry for that,' he says, 'because until then I had no friends I could talk to about these things.' But most of all, he became immersed, with Mr. Farooq at his side, in the world of board and computer games."
 
Walter Isaacson: "At college he became more focused on the [video game] genre known as strategy games, ones that involve two or more players competing to build an empire using high-level strategy, resource management, supply-chain logistics, and tactical thinking. Strategy games—those played on a board and then those for computers—would become central to Musk’s life. From The Ancient Art of War, which he played as a teen in South Africa, to his addiction to The Battle of Polytopia three decades later, he relished the complex planning and competitive management of resources that are required to prevail. Immersing himself in these games for hours became the way he relaxed, escaped stress, and honed his tactical skills and strategic thinking for business."

Walter Isaacson: "He never got fully immersed in [parties]. 'I was stone cold sober at the time,' he says. 'Adeo would get wasted. I’d be banging on his door and say, like, 'Dude, you’ve got to come up and manage the party.'' I ended up being the one who had to keep an eye on things.' Ressi later marveled that Musk usually seemed a bit detached. 'He enjoyed being around a party but not fully in it. The only thing he binged on was video games.' Despite all of their partying, he understood that Musk was fundamentally alienated and withdrawn, like an observer from a different planet trying to learn the motions of sociability. 'I wish Elon knew how to be a little happier,' he says."
 
Walter Isaacson: "He had a fanatic love of video games and the skills to make money creating them, but that was not the best way to spend his life. 'I wanted to have more impact,' he says."
 
Walter Isaacson: "From the very beginning of his career, Musk was a demanding manager, contemptuous of the concept of work-life balance. At Zip2 and every subsequent company, he drove himself relentlessly all day and through much of the night, without vacations, and he expected others to do the same. His only indulgence was allowing breaks for intense video-game binges."
 
Walter Isaacson: "With his weak empathy gene, he didn’t realize or care that correcting someone publicly—or, as he put it, 'fixing their fucking stupid code'—was not a path to endearment. He had never been a captain of a sports team or the leader of a gang of friends, and he lacked an instinct for camaraderie. Like Steve Jobs, he genuinely did not care if he offended or intimidated the people he worked with, as long as he drove them to accomplish feats they thought were impossible. 'It’s not your job to make people on your team love you,' he said at a SpaceX executive session years later. 'In fact, that’s counterproductive.'"

Walter Isaacson: "Elon at age twenty-seven walked away with $22 million ... Elon bought an eighteen-hundred-square-foot condo and splurged on what for him was the ultimate indulgence: a $1 million McLaren F1 sports car, the fastest production car in existence. ... After the impulsive outburst, he realized that the giddy display of his newfound taste for wealth was unseemly. 'Some could interpret the purchase of this car as behavior characteristic of an imperialist brat,' he admitted. 'My values may have changed, but I’m not consciously aware of my values having changed.' Had they changed? His new wealth allowed his desires and impulses to be subject to fewer restraints, which was not always a pretty sight. But his earnest, mission-driven intensity remained intact."

Justine Musk: “He’s not a man who takes no for an answer.”

Elon Musk (asking out Justine Musk, then Justine Wilson): "You have a fire in your soul. I see myself in you."

Walter Isaacson: "[Justine Musk, then Justine Wilson,] was impressed by his aspirations. 'Unlike other ambitious people, he never talked about making money,' she says. 'He assumed that he would be either wealthy or broke, but nothing in between. What interested him were the problems he wanted to solve.' His indomitable will—whether for making her date him or for building electric cars—mesmerized her. 'Even when it seemed like crazy talk, you would believe him because he believed it.'"

Justine Musk: “For somebody who was so amorous about me, he never hesitated to let me know that I was wrong about something, ... and I would fight back. I realized that I could say anything to him, and it just did not faze him.”

Walter Isaacson: "On a trip to Paris, they went to see the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries at the Musée de Cluny. Justine began describing what moved her, and she gave a spiritual interpretation involving the unicorn as a Christ-like figure. Musk called that 'stupid.' They began arguing furiously about Christian symbolism. 'He was just so adamant and furious that I didn’t know what I was talking about, that I was stupid and crazy,' she says."

Disagreements with IDRlabs

1. Ti is deductive and Te is inductive

Jung and even IDRlabs themselves have said that "the logic is the same" between Te and Ti, meaning that "there is not one kind of logic for Te and another for Ti; it is the orientation and selection of the premises which are used to form judgments that are mirrored between Te and Ti, but the logic is the same." I'm not going to argue against the idea that on average Ti may be more deductive or that Te may be more inductive but, in IDRlabs' own words, "averages do not say anything about specific individuals."

2. Fe/Ti sees people as more similar while Te/Fi sees people as more different

This goes into a more broader issue that I touched upon in my Why I Care About IDRlabs Typology blog, stating "their axes theory kind of makes sense in a broad and subtle perspective, but it breaks down when considered more important than that." There are a lot of reasons why I said that (most of which I won't go into right now) but one of the reasons is that seeing people as more different or similar is ultimately a content (belief, opinion, conclusion, whatever word you want to use). I get it, they wanted to make the most out of Jung's theory, but in principle it's best to just stick to individual functions.

My Typings (that's not on IDRlabs)

Disclaimer: The quotes shown here are not intended as standalone proofs (though a few of them are), but rather as extracted data from a specific context, such as an interview, from which we intuit a given function-attitude.

Morrisette: "I play with words linguistically like

they're paint."

Morrisette: "There was a time in my life, and

still an element of it now, where the only things

I wanted to do were things that scared me

[because in doing that] I felt alive, I felt like I

was transcending something, that I wasn't

stuck somewhere."

Morrisette: "Everything that happens is 

temporary for me."

The Atlantic: “Her verbosity [and] twee

wordplay [are] hard to resist. … She’s as

much of a storyteller ... as she is a

performer, which is why that sense of

identifying with her angst … is so sharp.”

 

Waltz: "Whether it’s a job, a relationship,

even a hobby that you follow for your own

amusement: eventually, you get to the

point where perseverance is what’s

needed."

Waltz: "I don’t like improvisation. I am not

a writer and creating a script is a writer’s

job. … I wouldn’t like it if an author came

up and told me how I should play a scene.

… I am not very good at it!"

Waltz: "[I do acting because] it's my
profession, no different than it is for any
other profession.”

Waltz: "I try to follow the lead of the writer,

and the script ... and find what's in the

case at hand and not so much in the

generalization of, for example, the genre

or the actor's persona. I really make an

effort to stick to the individual character

because it serves a very specific purpose.

And without the specificity you have more

or less nothing."

 

Waltz: "I think it is absolutely ridiculous that actors go on their bonus 

DVD interviews and explain what they were doing. That’s not what an 

actor does. ... It’s completely counterproductive for an actor to talk about 

his part."

Waltz: "I don’t like talking about [my roles]. If you go into a restaurant 

and you have been served an exquisite meal, you don’t need to know 

how the chef felt, or when he chose the vegetables on the market. I

always feel a little like I would pull the rug out from under myself if I 

were to I speak about the background of my work."

Waltz: "When Jochen Rindt was racing ... I remember everything about 

his crash; I remember exactly where I was, all the details. I’m not

particularly into motor racing, but I am into the tyre changes, the pit

stops. It is the most incredible thing to watch. That’s perfect

co-ordination between people and all their motor senses, every

movement perfectly rehearsed. Each person is 100 per cent perfect and

then it’s ten people together! The efficiency is breathtaking. ... this is ten 

people doing something which takes effort, concentration, knowledge 

and practice. It’s like playing a musical instrument."

Waltz: "I have a less romantic and idealistic approach to acting."

Waltz: "[Dialogue in film] should be dealt with with equal attention and 

diligence [as the visuals], but sadly it isn’t. You only have to listen to

people talk on the street, unless they’re talking this gibberish that seems 

to be the main mode of communication now."

Norton: "It's everybody's duty [and] social

responsibility to ... not be unpleasant."

Norton: "It is weird when you see people

without the 'wanting to be liked' gene, like you

see something like Simon Cowell or Anne

Robinson who [are] just quite happy to be

loathed. It's a weird thing isn't it."

Allen: "I never really liked school ... I didn't

really like sort of authority, and I kind of felt

like I wanted to educate myself, really. I just

knew I was never gonna be at a job that

required me to have a degree."

 

Allen: “[I'm open] to any opportunities that

come my way."

 

Allen: "I definitely hope I'm touching a nerve,

because I think that's what I like to do, is to

get people thinking."

NY Time: "She [has this] kind of irresistible

frankness that has gotten her, time and

again, in trouble."

 

 

Plaza: "The only thing I don't like about [my

previous roles] is if it prevented me from doing

other things, and it has become a bit of a

challenge, because people are stupid and

afraid to take risks."

Plaza: "The most fun part [is] trying to really

find the truth in every moment so that you're

not making these wild leaps of logic."

Plaza: "You can't be fully prepared for 

something like [acting] because you don't

know how it's going to feel [until] you're

actually in the moment doing it. ... [You] just

[have] to kind of do it."

Plaza: "I never had a time in my life where I

thought 'I don’t know what I want to do'. It was

always me saying, 'I know what I want to do

and I want to do it now!'"

 

Harper's BAZAAR: "[She has a] straight-

talking attitude. ... She cuts through the

usual obsequiousness of what can be."

 

Plaza: "Scenes where I'm breaking down or having really crazy

stuff happening to me [are] hard. I've not had to have all of those

emotions coming out of me. I'm not a super emotional person."

 

Plaza: "I’m just in the moment at all times.”

Plaza: “I guess whatever my character has to say, I have to say. I mean, 

what are words anyway? They’re just words: ‘chair’, ‘lawn’, ‘fuck’!”

Clark Gregg: “She’s fearless, she does it in a way that’s so humiliating 

and so embarrassing and so completely brave that you can’t help but

love her. And as someone acting with her, can’t help but go there with 

her.”

 

 

 

Burr: "You have to be up here [in your head] and think logical, and not be in your heart."

Burr: "[Stand up is] like, This is what I’m doing now. ... I obviously learned from a bunch of masters, but it always flowed into me. When you find what you’re supposed to do there’s not a lot of thinking. It just is."

Burr: "Life is all about getting knocked down and learning how to come back up even harder. Not being stupid about it and keep running into the same wall the same way, you adjust and try to get over it."

Burr: "I feel like we live in this ridiculously over-sensitive time where people get offended over nothing."

Harding: “Honesty is the great essential.

It exalts the individual citizenship, and,

without honesty, no man deserves the

confidence of the people in private

pursuit or in public office.”

Steven J. Rubenzer: “[He was] usually

cheerful and pliable.”

Steven J. Rubenzer: “Harding always tried

to maintain a positive approach.”

Steven J. Rubenzer: “He was decidedly

not ‘contemplative, intellectual,

introspective, meditative, philosophical.’”

Steven J. Rubenzer: "Harding's enthusiasm

and optimism were his real assets as

president."

Steven J. Rubenzer: "Harding had great difficulty resisting

temptation and was not inhibited or restrained. Not liking to do

things alone, he very much enjoyed big parties, spending time

with people, and being part of a crowd. Definitely not known as

cold or distant, he welcomed close relationships and was warm

and self-disclosing. He was outgoing and friendly toward

strangers, 'casual, easygoing, informal, natural, relaxed,' and

made friends easily. Harding clearly saw himself as a lighthearted

person and very plainly showed it when he was happy. His

feelings showed in his facial and body language; his gestures

were adroit. He often felt very energetic and vigorous."

Steven J. Rubenzer: "Harding and Clinton ... were warm and

self-disclosing, outgoing, friendly to those they just met, and not

detached, secretive, or reserved. Each enjoyed being part of a

crowd and showed his emotions in his facial and body language.

Neither had a reputation for being distant or cold, nor was

'bashful, shy, timid.' They preferred to do things with others rather

than alone and made friends easily."

Steven J. Rubenzer: "Virtually nobody considered him cold or

calculating. Nor was he defensive or lacking in humor about his

faults. He empathized easily with others, believed most people

were honest and trustworthy, and assumed the best about those

he met."

Natasha Bedingfield

"As a performer ... you have to just be who you are."

"I want people to have fun. We need to let our hair down sometimes, because we get so serious."

"I enjoy the fact that you get to try different styles."

"I like clothes that are flattering on your figure - they can be designer stuff or not you know. It’s quite fun to mix the high street with vintage - maybe one designer item or something. ... You can finish up mixing and matching a lot with other things."

 

 

Scott: “I want to live big. I want to laugh big, I

 want to love big, I want life to know I was here 

… and somehow make a difference in the 

process.”

Scott: “Don't let your character change color

with your environment. Find out who you are

and let it stay its true color.”

Scott: “[I] want to live every moment to the

fullest.”

Scott: “Bubbly. Perky. Outgoing. That’s what

grownups always say about me.”

Scott: “I [always] wanted to be on the front lines. I wanted to be there, 

right in the middle of everything. You know, I’m the girl who loves to 

make grand entrances. I’ll always choose vibrant, bold colors over 

boring pastels and given a choice, I’d rather go somewhere than stay 

home. … Rather laugh than cry.”

Scott: “When it comes to having a relationship with God, I could sit here 

and tell you what to do and what to say and how to pray, but where will 

that get you if you just sit there? … Best thing I can tell you is, go after 

God. … Christianity is not a label, but a lifestyle, something that has to 

be lived from the inside out.”

Scott: “I hate cliques. I’m not into being labeled in any way. I don’t like 

wearing jeans that have somebody’s name on my back pocket. Forget 

Khakis and shirts with little emblems and sweatshirts with big fat names 

across the front.”

Scott: “I wanted to be a high-impact, make-a-difference, love-the-world-

and-turn-the-tide kind of Christian. Not a wimpy, polite, no big deal, 

politically-correct-and-don’t-make-waves kind of Christian.”

Dido: "I really feel things deeply and that’s 

why I write songs."

Dido: “I write based on how I see and feel

things ... It’s all about transferring how I see

 the world into a song."

Dido: "To me a song is just about the flow of

it, it just has to flow and me to never notice

in a way, it has to feel whole and real.”

The Guardian: "[Her parents were] angry at

her lack of self-discipline."

Dido: “[The way] sort of been the way I’ve been with everything in life [is]

if I’m not feeling like I want to put the music out, then I won’t put the

music out. Or if I’m not feeling the need to get up on stage, then I won’t

get up on stage.”

Dido: “People keep saying, ‘Why did you step away [from making

music]?' It didn’t really feel like that to me. I just write songs. ... I’ve

never made records until enough of it builds up and I feel like I’ve got

something to say."

Dido: "I [am] very clear on what [I] like, and what [I] don’t."

Dido: "Music had always been my personal thing, no one invaded

it, no one bothered me, it was absolutely mine. It was my escape.

Whenever anything was bugging me, I'd just go and play my

music and it made me happy. And there was something about

them giving me money for it that, to me, symbolised it being taken

away. I felt like I no longer had the thing that made my life worth

living."