"I have moved around a lot, and I've lived in all of these different environments - that has affected the kinds of music and the range of music and influences I've had in my life. All of those influences - more subconsciously - play into the music I make."

“I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.”

“Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.”

“The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.”

“I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.”

“American culture is one that is so easily in denial. We have such a strange dichotomy, so hypocritical. The truth can be blaring in neon letters but our culture will find a reason not to hear what the truth is.”

“At a moderate calculation, among a million of persons inhabiting the metropolis, there are, at least, twenty-five thousand children who attend these schools, and cost their parents as many pounds sterling, per annum.”

Source : Joseph Lancaster (1805). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.180

“Work hard and be authentic. Everything else will fall into place.”

“When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.”

Source : "Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt". Book IV, 10, 10,