"Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself."

“I think it is now time for social scientists to step out of the shadow and to establish an advanced social sciences methodology that integrates science (third-person view) social transformation (second-person view) and the evolution of self (first-person view) into a coherent framework of consciousness-based action research”

“When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.”

“I'm like a small farmer who interacts with people who consume what I make and tend my little patch of ground, and the Spotifys of the world, which are like McDonald's, are going to make people less aware of how the thing gets made and of its value.”

Source : "Station to Station: The Past, Present, and Future of Streaming Music". Interview with Eric Harvey, pitchfork.com. April 16, 2014.

“Some say because music is as much about personal expression as listening pleasure, sharing is integral to why songs have value in the first place.”

“Sometimes when I hear my voice on tape, I'm like, 'Who is that horrible man?”

“If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.”

“I think 'SNL' is so well-known for its musical performances, as well, and people really breaking into America through a really great performance on there. So I think me and Gotye are both really excited to be amongst such company. You know, it's great.”

Source : "Kimbra And Gotye 'excited' For 'SNL' Appearance" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 13, 2012.

“Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.”

Source : Radclyffe Hall (1959). “Miss Ogilvy finds herself”