"My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct."

-- William Goffe

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“I'm spending all my time and energy on the project at hand.”
“Feeling intimidated is a good sign. Writing from a place of safety produces stuff that is at best dull and at worst dishonest.”
“I live by Edith Whartons rule to get rid of anything neither useful nor beautiful. So I put the TV out on the street.”
“I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life - with a somewhat precocious capacity for involvement.”
“The problem for most people as they get older is that they start to buy into their own bullshit to the extent that they just have to eliminate from their inner sanctum anyone who is going to really challenge it. But I think all bandmates of U2 were lucky enough to have the four of us respect and regard each other to the extent that we're kind of always looking out for one another, so none of us can get away with buying into the bullshit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“"On Script" is one of my favorite songs I've ever written. I'd just been jamming on it one day, and again I was struggling with lyrics. I'm still figuring out what it's about. I've seen a couple of reviews that are like, "It's about the monotony of playing the same songs every night," because I say, "On script every night/Like a well-rehearsed stage show." It's not about that at all, but I find that funny, how people project what they think about me, or songwriters in general.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I knew it wasn't too important, but it made me sad anyway.”
“For me the Holocaust was not only a Jewish tragedy, but also a human tragedy. After the war, when I saw that the Jews were talking only about the tragedy of six million Jews, I sent letters to Jewish organizations asking them to talk also about the millions of others who were persecuted with us together - many of them only because they helped Jews.”

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