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“I think the best thing for us is to just write songs that we like.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.”
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“After all, I think Forrest was the most remarkable man our Civil War produced on either side.”
Source : "The Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest". Book by John Allan Wyeth, July 1, 1996.
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“Sociologists and historians have avoided looking for the family sources of wars and social violence. Whenever a group produces murderers, the early parental relationship must have been abusive and neglectful. Yet this elementary truth has not even begun to be considered in historical research; just stating that poor mothering lies behind wars seems blasphemous.”
Source : "The Emotional Life of Nations". Book by Lloyd deMause, 2002.
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“Geniuses are people who dash off weird, wild, incomprehensible poems with astonishing facility, & then go & get booming drunk & sleep in the gutter. Genius elevates a man to ineffable speres [sic] far above the vulgar world, & fills his soul with a regal contempt for the gross & sordid things of earth. It is probably on account of this that people who have genius do not pay their board, as a general thing.”
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“for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.”
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“I do think that, at one time, being an actress was the equivalent almost of being a prostitute. It garnered roughly the same respect. That's changed a lot, thank goodness.”
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“Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its banner to the last; and fast as it is driven from one field unfurls it in another, never admitting that there is a shade less honor in the second field than in the first, or in the third than in the second.”
Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (2010). “Ramona”, p.150, Modern Library
