"Ive no regrets. You take responsibility for your actions."

“There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.”

Source : "Jack Straw: 'To survive in politics, you've got to have a sixth sense'" by Stephen Moss, www.theguardian.com. March 29, 2010.

“You can be amazing, you can turn a phrase into a weapon or a drug”

“You are a shelf of books without the pages.”

Source : Song: Let Me In, Album: Home, 2012

“We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.”

“I'm the son of an everyman. My father is a teacher. He teaches physics at a boys' school in Sydney.”

“I think fashion is repulsive. The whole idea that someone else can make clothing that is supposed to be in style and make other people look good is ridiculous. It sickens me to think that there is an industry that plays to the low self-esteem of the general public. I would like the fashion industry to collapse.”

Source : "The Verge Q+A: Punk Pioneer Steve Albini on Music Festivals, The Future of Radio and Why He Wants GQ To Fail". Interview with Aaron Lake Smith, www.gq.com. September 29, 2010.

“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.”

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.”