"Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man."

“If you're not living on the edge you're taking up too much space.”

“I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

“I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.”

“Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.”

“Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.”

“Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.”

Source : "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.

“All anyone is to anyone is a series of days.”

Source : Charles Yu (2012). “Sorry Please Thank You: Stories”, p.121, Vintage

“No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.”

Source : "We knocked the bastard off" by David Fickling, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2003.