“Personally, I dont like inherently happy people. I dont trust them. I think theres something seriously wrong with anyone who isnt at least a little let down by the world.”

“Did you really want to die?""No one commits suicide because they want to die.""Then why do they do it?""Because they want to stop the pain.”

“I can say this because shes my girlfriend, even if, at the moment, shes only my girlfriend in secret - Eliza has one of the worst voices known to man. Swear to God, for someone so obsessed with mus...”

“Tell me what you listen to, and I'll tell you who you are.”

“Has the industry done to music what McDonalds has done to eating?”

“The music defied classification. If I had been writing areview of the show, I would have labeled it progressive,guitar-driven rock n roll. But the guitars made sounds guitarsdidnt always make. Symp...”

“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”

“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”

“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”

“They keep track of time. Sometimes things happen and you feel that you need to mark them down.”

“Does religious conviction provide a powerful reason for killing? Undeniably it often does. It also often provides the sole compelling reason for refusing to kill, or for being merciful, or for seek...”

“the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.”

“You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett”

“There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high lev...”

“The Yankees, the first mechanicians in the world, are engineers - just as the Italians are musicians and the Germans metaphysicians - by right of birth. Nothing is more natural, therefore, than to ...”