"We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us."

-- Rumi

“It is ultimately character that underwrites art.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.63, Simon and Schuster
“When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.”
“There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.”
“I've always believed in self, I've always believed that as long as I believe, nothing else matters. I just put that type of motivation and that type of energy into my music, and I've always had confidence in my music as well.”

Source : Source: www.independentphilly.com
“A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.”
“You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.”
“I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.”
“I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.”

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