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“My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin.”
Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“In my almost ten years in the House of Representatives, I have voted consistently to allow companies to drill for oil and natural gas in environmentally friendly ways.”
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“There's a certain power in vague language, but I started to get more into the idea of really trying to have a discrete thought in the lyrics and to have songs that were about stuff - to try to make things more coherent.”
Source : "Dirty Projectors". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. July 2, 2012.
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“Real freedom will come when U.S. soldiers in Iraq turn their guns on their superiors.”
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“Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.”
Source : "BOOKMARK: Terry Tempest Williams on the perspective of nature and healing". Interview with Laurie Hertzel, www.startribune.com. June 30, 2017.
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“Man has long found solace in good talk to offset bad conduct.”
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“In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical, sarcastic side. Some of my stories are really sentimental, but they're layered over with weird, satirical stuff.”
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“I love the Holy Spirit. I can't stand to see it being disrespected. It's been there for me at times when I really needed it. Therefore, I have a duty to stand for it is how I feel.”