"An artist's business is only to see."

-- Henry Adams

“The album is a definite departure. I haven't written original material before, except for one song on my first album, but Elvis and I did six songs together on this one.”
“I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.”

Source : "Catherine the Great" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.
“You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.”
“Good journalism is being criminalized or otherwise rendered perilous to its best practitioners. Attack a government agency like the CIA, or a Fortune 500 member ..., or the conduct of the military in Southeast Asia and you find yourself in deep trouble, naked and often alone.”
“The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]”
“When we take our eyes off the whirl of day-to-day activity and concentrate on honoring Him and following in His way, we find a consistent peace that carries us through both plenty and poverty.”
“I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.”

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