"In the same way that a small child cannot draw a bad picture so a child of God cannot offer a bad prayer."

“Weirdism is definitely the cornerstone of many an artist's career.”

“It's strange for me to say it, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, 8 million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing. The Berlin Wall has fallen. We can see it.”

Source : "And now the Syrians sniff freedom" by Boris Johnson, www.telegraph.co.uk. March 3, 2005.

“Politically I am neither left nor right! And this kind of political-ethical standpoint-- being in the middle-- usually brings about seclusion and isolation! But now I do not mind it anymore and, instead, I work more and more in my self-made solitude!”

“Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel.”

“Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.”

Source : "JJ Cale, songwriter behind Cocaine and After Midnight, dies aged 74" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. July 27, 2013.

“My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.”

“Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.”

Source : Elfriede Jelinek (2010). “The Piano Teacher”, p.67, Profile Books

“What makes you different, makes you dangerous.”