"I don't know where the money would come from, I don't have that answer, but I've been wanting to do something for music education for a long time as it's a big part of not only our band but my whole life."

“Her magic formula for dealing with children is ignoring all faults and accenting tiny virtues. She says, "Instead of telling Tommy day in and day out that he is the naughtiest boy in the United States of America, which could very well be true, take an aspirin and comment on his neatly tied shoes. Almost anybody would rather be known for expert shoe-tying than for kicking the cat." She always tells whiners how charming they are--bullies how brave--bad sports how good--sneaks how honest!”

“Parents make sure homework is returned without error, drill their kids on upcoming tests to the saturation point, and then complain if teachers do not give the grades they think their kids deserve. By that point, it's hard to tell whose grades they are.”

“But the truth is, at some point, our films - almost every single one of them - are really bad. And it's largely hats off to John Lasseter and Ed Catmull who have set up a system whereby they're expecting it.”

“I walk around the world like a ghost, and sometimes I question whether I even exist. Whether I've ever existed at all.”

“In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.”

“If you ask me what I want, I'll tell you. I want everything.”

Source : Kathy Acker (1996). “Pussy, King of the Pirates”, Acker, Kathy

“Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.”

“Coal is My Worst Nightmare.”

Source : "Nightmare On Coal Street". www.desmogblog.com. December 19, 2008.