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“I can answer anything about any American pop culture song ever.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster”
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“Race and sexual preferences are two different things. One is a behavior-related and preference-related and one is something inherently - skin color, something obvious, that kind of stuff.”
Source : "GOP Rep. Lankford Explains Why It Should Be Legal To Fire Someone For Being Gay: ‘It’s A Choice Issue’". thinkprogress.org. May 14, 2012.
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“Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“At home in South Africa I have sometimes said in big meetings where you have black and white together: 'Raise your hands!' Then I have said: 'Move your hands,' and I've said 'Look at your hands - different colors representing different people. You are the Rainbow People of God.”
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“I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.”
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“Not all men (and especially the wisest) share the opinion that it is bad for women to be educated. But it is very true that many foolish men have claimed this because it displeased them that women knew more than they did.”
Source : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
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“One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within himself the power to immortalize at will anything he chooses to immortalize. Insignificant though he may be, he is conscious of possessing a creative divinity. God creates lives; the man of imagination creates fictional lives which may make a profound and as it were more living impression on the world's memory.”
Source : Statement on February 08, 1868. "Pages from the Goncourt Journal". Book by Edmond de Goncourt, translated by Robert Baldick, p. 135, 1962.