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“Nature is not a temple, but a ruin. A beautiful ruin, but a ruin all the same.”
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“I like interacting with human beings, so being on stage feels like a larger version of that - kind of like throwing a party. It's like knocking into the human collision of everyday life and it just so happens to break down the wall between the audience and me and helps the songs communicate better.”
Source : "Singer-Songwriter Matt Nathanson: On feeling vulnerable, staying present, and not being terrified". Interview with Mary Bruce, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. October 26, 2015.
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“Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.”
Source : Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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“A jump from the sixth floor is definitely more harmful than taking heroin, yet we don't forbid building sixth floors.”
Source : Drug legalization debate, November 13, 2007.
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“The refusal of King George to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system, which freed the ordinary man from clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution.”
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“I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983.”
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“It's hard for anyone in the 24-hour news cycles that we all live in now to follow something that the first round is played in March and the final finishes in December. I understand the challenges there.”
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“The secret of the superiority of state over private education lies in the fact that in the former the teacher is responsible to society ... [T]he result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.”