"Moses, who said to the children of Israel, Wear your galoshes; I never did this trick before. Never got a dinner!"

“I want nothing better, more flexible or more complete than the sonata form, which contains everything necessary for my structural purposes.”

“That is definitely the heart and soul of Rise Against — that passion to inspire change for the better.”

“I try to discover the character's primary motivation. In a screenplay, you can make up a hundred different variables of a character. Is he there for love or respect, or is he there out of fear? What's he doing? Why is he doing it? Then I can build on the intricacies. Does he pick his fingernails? Does he always do this when he's lying? All the little things that come with it. But it's also like, if you're doing a caricature and you're like, "I want to do a blue-collar guy from Jersey," you have to go and do the research on the region, the who, what and why.”

Source : Source: abilitymagazine.com

“No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”

“I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

“I don't consider myself a fashion designer.”

Source : 2003 In the Daily Telegraph, 21 Apr.

“If I play badly I'll pick a fight in the third, just to get into a fight. I'll break a guy's leg to win, I don't care. Afterward I say, 'Yeah all right I played badly, but I won the fight so who gives a damn.”

“True love survives all shocks: an affection originally produced by admiration for unusual beauty may not only survive the loss of that beauty, but may become more intense if the beauty has changed into ugliness through causes that bind the lovers together in tender associations.”

Source : Arthur Lynch (1921). “Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day”