"In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around."

“If a man does something silly, people say, 'Isn't he silly?' If a woman does something silly, people say, 'Aren't women silly?”

“We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when danger threatens and duty calls, we go smiling to our own funeral.”

“Today many medications act across diagnostic groups. Alliance effects also transcend specific psychotherapy methods. Both may be affecting profound psychopathological processes.”

“There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.”

“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.”

Source : "Force of Nature". Book by Dana Mentink (p. 215), December 3, 2013.

“We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power.”

“The very nature of paradise is that it will be lost.”

“All the themes of incipient fascism are present, to some degree, in our present-day political culture: the fear of the Other, the need for a (powerless) scapegoat, including the theme of expansionism.”