"The way that I've always viewed my career, I always do what comes to me. I don't write forty songs per album, I write fifteen to twenty songs and pick the ones that represent this period of my life the most."

“How proud I am to be compared to Oprah. I really admire her. She's a minority woman and she's done all this by herself... I'm very happy to be Oprah with salsa and not Donahue in drag.”

“Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and passion of discovery, along with a heartfelt affection for those who keep alight the flame of our musical heritage.”

“You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.”

“The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.”

“It just seems like musicians want to sell a few records and put out a perfume line, and I think it's so sad that there are so many musicians who don't want to change the world.”

“For tens of millions of people [television] has become habit-forming, brain-softening, taste-degrading.”

“I don't even watch Fox News usually in the prime time hours because I'm home with my kids and that's more important to me.”

“Mental synthesis of psychic content in the unity of a moment-consciousness is a fundamental principle of psychology.”

Source : Boris Sidis (1914). “The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology”