"To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that a school may succeed in mastering the thought of the individual."

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the greatest intention.”

“Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.”

Source : John F. Carlson (2013). “Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting”, p.118, Courier Corporation

“Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.”

Source : Steve Almond (2004). “Candyfreak: A Journey through the Chocolate Underbelly of America”, p.198, Algonquin Books

“No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost.”

“When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.”

“My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.”

“If you give people an idea these days, they just think you are sharing it with them so they can critique it, play devil's advocate, and so on. It doesn't occur to them that they might help or get enthused or at least have the courtesy to get out of your way.”

“People expect us to be a straight up dance band but there are many more elements to our sound that you really get to see during our live show and hear on our record 'See The Light.'”