"The Irish seem to want their artists to function as surrogate priests - sources of authority, founts of wisdom, people who will offer us free-range organic consolation, you name it. It's not a position I feel comfortable with."

“There was a time when my taste in music was mainstream, for example - people like Jimi Hendrix - who I really based a lot of my inspiration on, was the most popular entertainer of his day. He was really number one. And bands like Led Zeppelin, The Beatles are really number one bands. But those days are very much done. I can't say that if I listen to the number one artist now that I get excited.”

Source : Source: www.indieberlin.de

“We live in a youth-obsessed, aesthetically obsessed culture. That is no more evident than in the film industry.”

“There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.”

“Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.”

“The problem with promises is that once you've made one, it's bound to be broken. It's like an unspoken cosmic rule.”

Source : Bree Despain (2011). “The Dark Divine”, p.16, Egmont UK

“Never give up! All you have to do is try again.”

“A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - and the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.”

“The Bible is one story that unfolds in one book, by one author, about one subject. A story that moves from promise to fulfillment.”