"A person who is driven to spend their time and energy doing something must believe in it, whether they want recognition for it, money from it, or if it's a cathartic experience to do it, whatever their motivation that is valid for them. That's the artist's motivator."

“You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.”

“To try to regulate the internal affairs of a family, the relations of love or friendship, or many other things of the same sort, by law or by the coercion of public opinion, is like trying to pull an eyelash out of a man's eye with a pair of tongs. They may put out the eye, but they will never get hold of the eyelash”

Source : Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1874). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.177

“The person most in control is the person who can give up control.”

“My favorite era of hip-hop was between '85-'89. That was the era that got me to love hip-hop.”

“the judge in the Saddam trial appears to be wearing comedy specs and moustache.”

“For what mission can be greater than that of giving to the world hours of exaltation in which it may forget the misery of the present, the cares of everyday life and lose itself in the eternally pure world of harmony. . .”

Source : Lotte Lehmann (2013). “More Than Singing: The Interpretation of Songs”, p.17, Courier Corporation

“You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.”

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“Maybe it's like Casey says. A fellow ain't got a soul of his own. Just a little piece of a big soul. The one big soul that belongs to everybody.”