"Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized."

“I'm a horrible control freak. It's awful! I'm nice, but if someone is folding some sheets while I am playing the guitar, I keep one eye on the way that they are folding the sheets.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com

“I don't think I thought I was going to go into music, and I don't think it hit me until I was 13 or 14, and then I was gone. Just like that. At that point, there was nothing else that could keep my attention.”

“I'm really a peaceful sort of coward.”

Source : L. A. Meyer (2004). “Bloody Jack: Being an Account of the Curious Adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy”, p.132, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“I tried Zen and Ching, numerology, tarot cards and astrology. I tried to look back into the Bible, and could not find anything. At this time I did not know anything about Islam, and then, what I regarded as a miracle occurred. My brother had visited the mosque in Jerusalem, and was greatly impressed that while on the one hand it throbbed with life.”

“I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.”

“[In a republic,] it is not the people themselves who make the decisions, but the people they themselves choose to stand in their places.”

“He was right. They could have a whole conversation without exchanging a word. And the conversation they had right now went like this: Colin, shut it. I don’t think I will, M. Then I’ll make you. Really? How?I’m not certain, but it will be slow and painful. And I won’t leave any evidence.”

“Rhode Island has become a second home to me after being involved in its cultural life for over 61 years. I look upon it as a privilege to be inducted into the Rhode Island Music Hall of Fame.”