"Answers come and go, I've found. But the questions? Those remain forever."

“With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.”

“If you ever meet a guy and you fall in love with him, but because of some weird genetic mutation he doesn't seem to return the feeling?... Wear that dress.”

“There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.”

“Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.”

Source : Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.8, Yale University Press

“Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.”

Source : "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

“I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

“I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.”

“The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.”