"Genres are like the surface of the ocean. There are waves and things moving, but you don't instantly see all the reefs and ecosystems that's happening beneath the surface."

“If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'”

“I gave away the Irish dancing, which is pivotal. It's just so silly and fun and nice to do because it kind of lifts the energy for us, right at the point where the energy could start to take a nose dive.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

“The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.”

“Creeds made in Dark Ages are like drawings made in dark rooms”

Source : Joseph McCabe (1929). “The Story of Religious Controversy”

“On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On the city has gathered the idea of an achieved centre of learning, communication, light. Powerful hostile associations have also developed: on the city as a place of noise, worldliness and ambition; on the country as a place of backwardness, ignorance, limitation. A contrast between country and city, as fundamental ways of life, reaches back into classical times.”

Source : Raymond Williams (1975). “The Country and the City”, p.1, Oxford University Press, USA

“It's better to wake up alone knowing that you're alone, than waking up with someone and still be lonely”

“I feel like there's no subject that can't be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.”

“I felt like I've needed to ask my parents up until about four years ago about everything. They have helped me tremendously, I came out of college with no debt. Everything they made, they just poured into my education.”

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