"Instruments are expensive, aren't they? But it's your art though. It's a lot of money but it's your instrument - imagine buying a bass for just one sound and then a bunch of pedals. So in comparison it's not that much."

“I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.”

“The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared.”

“Anything that gets children reading is fine.”

Source : "Frank Lampard, good children's stories aren't easy wins" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2013.

“I really believe that women who are confident in their natural beauty are the most beautiful”

“I started doing cocaine to get through interviews, 'cause people wanted to know a lot about my personal life and I wasn't prepared for a 60 Minutes interview every time. Doing bumps I was able to get through the day, but then I would smoke weed to calm me down - it was the only way I could get through the day without people noticing I was doing it.”

“In effective, sustained citizen action, people learn the skills of public life with which to act effectively. "Commons," or the common wealth-the public goods that are objects of sustainable public action-become not only occasions for collaboration by invaluable sources of citizen education in their own right because they are the occasions for learning such skills.”

Source : Harry Chatten Boyte (1989). “CommonWealth: A Return to Citizen Politics”

“Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners and Southerners.”

“We've got a problem!" I shouted. "No, I heard that. I mean, what's the problem now?" "I have the solution!" Jack interrupted. "What?" I sat up, all ears. "Bells!" "What?" Lend and I asked at the same time. "Get her a kitty collar with bells on it. That way you can hear her coming and get someplace where you won't be hurt by collapsing immediately into sleep.”