"There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."

“I don't want to be somebody who stands still and sings pretty. Each song is a world. Each song is a story. I don't achieve nearly what I want.”

“I do greatly admire Australian artists.”

“Life is like music for its own sake. We are living in an eternal now, and when we listen to music we are not listening to the past, we are not listening to the future, we are listening to an expanded present.”

“I don't travel anywhere without the PS3 and XBox. There's nothing better to do on long bus trips while on tour.”

“Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence...and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”

Source : "10 years later, Dixie Chicks right all along" by LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. March 5, 2013.

“I'm much more conspicuous having long hair than I will be with it short.”

Source : Bess Wallace Truman, Harry S. Truman (2011). “Dear Harry, Love Bess: Bess Truman's Letters to Harry Truman, 1919–1943”, p.36, Truman State University Press

“A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden.”

“The city of angels? It's the city of devils. The city of smiling cobras.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.