Ed MacFarlane famous quotes

I think we tend to write more uplifting and vibrant music when we're in bleak and lonely surroundings. I think it's because you're channeling your loneliness in a way that you're trying to escape to your situation.
-- Ed MacFarlane

#Uplifting #Lonely #Loneliness

I think we work well when there are absolutely no distractions whatsoever, because we tend to come up with the best ideas around one or two in the morning, so you have to be plugging away.
-- Ed MacFarlane

#Morning #Thinking #Distraction

Saying you're a pop group isn't saying very much. Personally, when I think of pop, I think of instant, accessible, catchy songs - I definitely identify our music as that. I think that by writing pop, or instant, accessible or hopefully catchy music, it shoes you into bigger audiences because it seems that more people like that music. I think the possibilities are endless if you stick to a simplistic short song; the music can be as wild and bizarre as you want it to be, as long as at the core of it, there's something really strong.
-- Ed MacFarlane

#Song #Strong #Writing

As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.

Enlightenment does not ask you to be perfect; it simply asks you to find perfection right where you stand.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

Being human is the most terrible loneliness in the universe.

None of the prophets old, So lofty or so bold! No form of danger shakes his dauntless breast; In loneliness sublime He dares confront the time, And speak the truth, and give the world no rest No kingly threat can cowardize his breath, He with majestic step goes forth to meet his death.

Loneliness is everything it's cracked up to be.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.