"I'd work on Garbage or I'd edit a song or writing here, but I was able to do a lot of things with my family. There are things outside of Garbage, the whole band has come to realize that we need things like that. That's why we took that break. Garbage had swallowed us up and had become a full time obsession for us and we needed to escape that and reclaim our old lives."

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Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com

Butch Vig

#Song Quotes #Writing Quotes #Obsession Quotes

“Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.”
“Contrary to popular thinking, being worthy isn't something you earn, it's something you recognize.”
“We were fortunate enough to have several good books detailing the camps and the women. Some were by the survivors. I also got to talk to some of the women who had been in the camp, survivors.”
“Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the spirit.”
“For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers. You have to look at how normal people manage with such things in their pasts.”
“What our generation has forgotten is that the system of private property is the most important guarantee of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for those who do not. It is only because the control of the means of production is divided among many people acting independently that nobody has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide what to do with ourselves.”

Source : "The Road to Serfdom". Book by Friedrich Hayek, Ch. 7 : Economic Control and Totalitarianism, 1940 - 1943.
“I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.”
“I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.”

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