"The trick is finding a person whose flaws don't drive you crazy...you know...someone whose flaws you can live with...someone who can stand your flaws, too."

“You can scare off a lot of cowboys just by looking mean, I guess.”

“That’s what the human brain is there for—to turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols. Sometimes the symbols correspond fairly closely to some of the aspects of the external reality behind our experience; then you have science and common sense. Sometimes, on the contrary, the symbols have almost no connection with external reality; then you have paranoia and delirium. More often there’s a mixture, part realistic and part fantastic; that’s religion.”

“You know, Leonard Cohen is amazing, just a mastermind, and really one of the great geniuses of our time.”

Source : "Virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro Takes Ukulele Seriously". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Jennifer Ludden, www.npr.org. January 1, 2011.

“Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.”

“Sleep my friend, and you will see that dream is my reality.”

“The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.”

“One of these grand defects, as I humbly conceive, is this, that children are habituated to learning without understanding.”

“Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.”

Source : "Q&A With Mindy Grossman". Interview with Jordan Saniuk, footwearnews.com. January 11, 2010.