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“I loved the MC5 and the Stooges, but also, the British Invasion - the Kinks and the Yardbirds - and then Led Zeppelin, of course. Alice Cooper was one of my favorite bands.”
Source : "Hot Tracks: John Varvatos". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. October 2013.
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“The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.”
Source : Katharine Lee Bates (1907). “From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England”
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“Aristotle compiled the first known comprehensive list of all winners of the Olympic Games. Which means that quite probably he was sat in a bar with Plato, muttering 'Go on then, give me any year you like and I'll tell you who won the four-man bobsleigh.'”
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“I'm not bored with my life. I'm not just making the records and touring, I would find that boring.”
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“The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic.”
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“In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and winding, ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac.”
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“When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.”
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“Energy moves in cycles, circles, spirals, vortexes, whirls, pulsations, waves, and rhythms—rarely if ever in simple straight lines.”