"Take my last best advice: Try everything twice!"

“I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star.”

Source : "Marina Diamandis Mines the Future". Interview with Alex Chapman, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 26, 2012.

“God's Wisdom and God's Goodness!--Ah, but fools Mis-define thee, till God knows them no more. Wisdom and goodness they are God!--what schools Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore. This no Saint preaches, and this no Church rules: 'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.”

“I see interracial couples all the time in Nashville. I'm a Jew in Nashville. I'm a gay person in Nashville. It's a non-issue in most of the time. That's a huge leap forward.”

Source : "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". Interview with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

“The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.”

Source : Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.23, 1st World Publishing

“What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.”

Source : National Gallery (Great Britain), Lucian Freud (1987). “The artist's eye: Lucian Freud : an exhibition of National Gallery Paintings selected by the artist 17 June - 16 August 1987”

“Your character is your destiny.”

“that when given the opportunity, many honest people will cheat.”

“The result of cutting [political power] up into little bits is simply that the man who can sweep the greatest number into one heap will govern the rest... In a pure democracy the ruling men will be the wirepullers and their friends; but they will no more be on an equality with the voters than soldiers of Ministers of State are on an equality with the subjects of monarchy.”

Source : James Fitzjames Stephen (1873). “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity”, p.240