"The vast majority (over 80 percent) of fast-food and similar low wage service jobs ("

“I've never really gotten into the whole labels thing. There were times I would cover a pop song, and people would say 'You sound really country.' I gave up on that whole thing a long time ago.”

“I'm always writing ideas down and then I stick em in my pocket and put em in that folder so I don't lose them. Like, somebody might say something, and I'll go, oh that's a good line, and that goes in the folder, too. It's kind of an ongoing process for me.”

“Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.”

“In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.”

Source : Alfred Stieglitz, J. Paul Getty Museum (1995). “Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum”, p.82, Getty Publications

“Chris Smith is openly gay and I think Peter Mandelson is certainly gay.”

“I think when you embrace celibacy other elements of the relationship have to come forth. There isn't an opportunity for you to be blinded by your sexual desires there is an opportunity to see things more clearly.”

“You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.”

“I've dubbed myself as an amateur, not because I work in different field, but because I do what I do for love.”

Source : "Billy Childish Talks Van Gogh And His Definition Of The Word 'Amateur'” by Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 13, 2011.