When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.
The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
We try to get the best performance out of the artists. There is no point in saying to them, 'You're useless.'
I'm a useless guitar-player. When I put myself in a band I immediately became its weakest part. I was like my forehand volley at tennis.
I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.
If I'm exhausted, physically and particularly emotionally, I can't tell what's good and I can't tell what's bad and I'm useless.
I don't read a lot of things, and if I hear things, I don't really think about them because it's useless.
The Christopher Robin who appears in so many of the poems is not always me. This was where my name, so totally useless to me personally, came into its own: it was a wonderful name for writing poetry round.
I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
When it comes to assessing the chances of some complicated combination of events, gut feelings are pretty much useless.
That is the most difficult thing: to feel that you are useless, not worth as much as before, not worth as much as the others.