"My grandparents on my mom's side played in a mandolin orchestra. So when I hear mandolins, I automatically think of them."

“Do you care about freedom? Dreams may have inspired it, and wishes prompted it, but only war and weapons have made it yours.”

“The basic postulate from which I start is that the goal of the social sciences is the liberation of man.”

“Drugs and alcohol are not my problem — reality is my problem. Drugs and alcohol are my solution.”

Source : "Russell Brand: my life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.

“If we're going to be considered horror filmmakers, we have to prove it not only to ourselves, but to the audience that we can actually make something scary.”

Source : "Blair Witch director Adam Wingard on his most straightforward movie yet". Interview with Katie Rife, film.avclub.com. September 22, 2016.

“The brutal reality of politics would be probably intolerable without drugs.”

“And let them pass, as they will too soon, With the bean-flowers' boon, And the blackbird's tune, And May, and June!”

“It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.”

“It is not very natural to make dynamic changes with the recorder. When you play a long note and want to make a diminuendo, the pitch will fall, and vice versa. So you need to adjust these with your fingers.”