"There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves."

“Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever.”

“I realize how desperately I need grace, therefore I try to lavishly give it.”

“I'm an adventurer. I like invention, I like discovery.”

“I have a great family that loves me, a record deal at 14, and I get to do what I love every day.”

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“A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.”

Source : "Truth and Method". Book by Hans-Georg Gadamer (p. 76), 1960.

“I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't.”

“We are reaching the point where the temperature standstill is becoming the major feature of the recent global warm period that began in 1980. In brief, the global temperature has remained constant for longer than it has increased."”

“I've been messing around in the studio the last couple of years. But I don't want to worry about being taken seriously as a singer. It just really feels good to do it.”