"I was always looking for the same man - a strong father figure."

“Clothes are incredibly symbolic.”

“All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some city, they all seem to hint, even more eternal.”

Source : Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

“The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.”

Source : "Willy Mason’s Got Gold". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2013.

“I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.”

“What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.”

“As a rule, adversity reveals genius and prosperity hides it”

“I search for the realness, the real feeling of a subject, all the texture around it... I always want to see the third dimension of something... I want to come alive with the object.”

Source : "Unhaling: On God, Grace and a Perfectly Imperfect Life". Book by Elise Seyfried (p. 85), May 6, 2010.

“I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an utter lack of imagination and I envy you both of those qualities. You'll never mind facing realities and you'll never want to escape from them as I do.”