""Dancing with the Stars" is a great way to take Erika Jayne into more people's homes so she can have a good time and show them what she's all about. It's also a great opportunity for me to step out of my comfort zone to perform and learn something new every week."

“Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.”

Source : "Individualism Reconsidered". Book by David Riesman, p. 333, 1954.

“When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.”

“You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.”

Source : Sarah Kay (2016). “The Type”, p.13, Hachette UK

“To worship a sacred mystery was just to worship your own ignorance.”

“I'm fascinated with the attitude of younger rock bands, even ones that are making money at it. I don't ever hear them talk about it as a "career." It almost makes me think there isn't even a music industry anymore, like an atom bomb fell and it was just eradicated forever.”

“Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.”

“Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.”

Source : Hugh Black (1999). “The Art of Being a Good Friend: How to Bring Out the Best in Your Friends and in Yourself”, p.29, Sophia Institute Press

“I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.”