"The most powerful ties are the ones to the people who gave us birth ... it hardly seems to matter how many years have passed."

“Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying a bass for just one sound and then a bunch of pedals. So in comparison it's not that much.”

“I feel like utopia is neither here nor there. It's in that sort of space where you feel the most present, and that can be on tour [or] at home. It's easier to get to that place on tour because your environment is constantly changing, and from a very primal, evolutionary perspective, you have heightened awareness when you're in an unfamiliar place, so it's easier to access that state.”

“I was with Shaq at his home the day he retired. It was innovative for him to become the media and announce via social media that he was retiring.”

“What would the world look like if we asked ourselves the following more often; are our actions helping others find a way to feel more freer, more dignified and more beautiful?”

“My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and Sandhurst type, thought it was 'unsportsmanlike' to do it. Never having been to a public school, I was unhampered by such considerations of form. I just pointed out that there was a bloody war on, and that I intended to avenge my pals.”

“Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.”

“Astrology is a language. If you understand this language, the sky speaks to you.”

“Beauty brings copies of itself into being.”

Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.3, Princeton University Press