"A young songwriter shouldn't think he or she doesn't stand a chance because someone has big corporate people behind him. Never look at it like that."

“You see, I used to do a certain amount of market research by going to the local drugstore and seeing what the truck drivers would put up. Now it's all just copies from the latest best-seller list and damn little of anything else.”

“Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone that which is his due.”

“I have some stuff that I've been working on the past year or two, but I haven't put anything together into songs or anything like that. Maybe it'll turn into letters to the president, I don't really know what it'll turn into.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“You won't change things unless you are prepared to fight, even if you don't win. But I do hate losing.”

“Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.”

“One isn't born with courage. One develops it by doing small courageous things-in the way that if one sets out to pick up a 100-pound bag of rice, one would be advised to start with a five-pound bag, then 10 pounds, then 20 pounds, and so forth, until one builds up enough muscle to lift the 100-pound bag. It's the same way with courage. You do small courageous things that require some mental and spiritual exertion.”

“Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout.”

Source : "A Conservative Guide to Rhetoric" by Jack Hitt, www.newyorker.com. October 14, 2013.

“Inside I knew he was meant to be the guy that taught me about life. Even if he broke my heart eventually.”

Source : Abbi Glines (2014). “The Rosemary Beach Collection: Rush and Blaire: Fallen Too Far, Never Too Far, and Forever Too Far”, p.112, Simon and Schuster