"What playing solo has reminded me is how much I love electronic music and how much I love dance music. I'd like to move towards something more hypnotic and rhythmic rather than song-based."

“I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.”

“love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!”

“Well we usually just try to do a mix from all the albums so if somebody just has one they don't get bummed out that they don't hear anything from that record, then a couple songs you'll only hear live. Just kind of wing it you know? And sometimes on a tour you'll get with a set-list you like and you kind of just stick with that.”

“Any degree of unemployment worries me.”

“The only place I've found peace in my life is in church. I owe my life to God.”

“You never have a friend all figured out. Just when you think you know what makes them tick, they tock.”

“no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.”

Source : Barbara Ehrenreich (2010). “Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America”, p.193, Macmillan

“Tis the gift to be gentle, ’tis the gift to be fair, ’Tis the gift to wake and breathe the morning air, To walk every day in the path that we choose, Is the gift that we pray we will never never lose.”