"At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit."

“I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids.”

“Me I never had the chance to say,Well,I'm going to do something I want to do."I always did if for my family,for my children, for my father,for my mother."”

“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.”

“When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.”

“I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?”

Source : "The kiss of death" by Jon Henley, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2007.

“They couldn't wait to get me out. My dad found my place, my mom helped me pack, and my brother was making architectural plans for my bedroom. It was just what you do at 18.”

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

“To risk reputation and affection for the truth's sake is so demanding that to do it constantly you will need a degree of moral principle that only the Spirit of God can work in you. Do not turn your back like a coward, but play the man. Follow boldly in your Master's steps, for He has made this rough journey before you. Better a brief warfare and eternal rest than false peace and everlasting torment.”

“Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.”

Source : Henry Adams (2013). “The Education of Henry Adams”, p.165, e-artnow