"An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."

“Scores only matter if they’re very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.”

“Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.”

Source : "French Montana: Homecoming" by Zach Baron, www.thefader.com. September 25, 2012.

“Labels are for cans, not for people.”

“There are a lot of musicians who are still desperately trying to pretend that it's 1998 and by having a huge marketing campaign, they somehow believe that they can sell 10 million records. That's delusional. No one sells 10 million records. The days of musicians getting rich off of selling records are done.”

“Books have a vital place in our culture. They are the source of ideas, of stories that engage and stretch the imagination and most importantly, inspire.”

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.”

“Bono as we all know, is in love with the world, he's enamoured by it. I'm enraged by it. He wants to give the world a great big hug, I want to punch its lights out.”

Source : "Get Up, Stand Up". www.imdb.com. (2003-).

“Democracy is the absolute value that makes for human dignity, as well as the only road to sustained economic development and social justice.”

Source : Dae Jung Kim (2004). “The 21st century and the Korean people: selected speeches of Kim Dae-jung, 1998-2004”