"Sometimes to move forward you have to let go. I figured that out through opening myself up, allowing people into my creative process. It allowed me to write songs that surprised me, and in fact, inspired me."

“To teach superstitions as truth is a most terrible thing,”

“I like movies that instill passion in the viewer. I like movies that can teach us about who we are as people.”

“Couples who have been together for a long time say the key to staying together is to work as a team toward the greater good, tolerating some tough (even tragic) times to grow together and work toward a mature kind of union.”

“All politicians are going to mask to some degree in order to present themselves in away they think will get them votes. What's different in Obama's case is that he's wearing a racial mask, this 'bargainer's' mask, and I think very effectively, whereby he gives whites the benefit of the doubt. He's essentially saying, 'I am going to presume you are not racist, if you won't hold my race against me.' So, his mask is a distinctly racial one.”

Source : Black Star News Interview, www.blackstarnews.com. February 29, 2008.

“I have never been able to entertain a God-idea which was not integrally related to the fact of chipmunks, squirrels, hippopotamuses, galaxies, and light years.”

Source : Joseph Sittler, Steven Bouma-Prediger, Peter W. Bakken (2000). “Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics”, p.77, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.”

“The better you look, the more you see.”

Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “Glamorama”, p.121, Pan Macmillan

“Put legs to your prayers”