"God's chief gift to those who seek him is Himself."

“THERE'S SOMETHING BORING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO GO TO AN OFFICE FOR A LIVING.”

“I got a publishing deal with BMG, they were supportive, and some money to record demos”

“That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.”

“Some of the things I'm talking about are very taboo and swept under the rug. As far as suicide and depression and alcoholism and stuff like that. Our community doesn't believe in therapy, they believe in dealing with it.”

Source : Source: youknowigotsoul.com

“All we had was her room, her stories, and the quiet that settled in as we tried in vain to spread ourselves out and fill the space she'd left behind.”

“I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”

“As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.”

Source : "Emmet Gowin: 'Everyone thought my photographs were incestuous'". Interview with Sarah Moroz, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2014.

“There are some things that can't be measured.”