"It is the character of a brave and resolute man not to be ruffled by adversity and not to desert his post."

“As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.”

Source : "Bradford Cox Talks "Shocking" Minneapolis Show" by Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. March 7, 2012.

“(...)normalcy is an illusion. Each person is utterly unique. A standard of normalcy is something that most people of the world simply will never access.”

“Yet, individuals and corporations in Puerto Rico pay no federal income tax.”

“All I ever wanted was to sing to God. He gave me that longing and then made me mute.”

Source : "Fictional character: Antonio Salieri". "Amadeus", 1984.

“It's not hard to read about death abstractly. I do find it tough when a character I love dies, of course. You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.”

Source : Will Schwalbe (2012). “The End of Your Life Book Club”, p.129, Vintage

“Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.”

Source : Teresa Medeiros (2008). “The Bride and the Beast”, p.311, Bantam

“Um, I don't know, really [about my future.]”

“Anything I sing is supposed to be genuine. It's not supposed to be make-believe or I'm making something for the crowd to jump or to hold up their hands.”

Source : "Who Is Wayne Wonder?". Interview with Laura Gardner, jahworks.org. September 5, 2000.