"I treat the act of making a record very much like working in a laboratory, experimenting with sounds and ideas... Whoever chooses to latch onto it, great; whoever doesn't, that's fine, too. The reaction always pales in comparison to the weight of the act of production."

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Source : "'Time' Is Right for Songwriter Ward" by Jill Menze, www.reuters.com. January 10, 2009.

M. Ward

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“Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.”
“But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.”
“The new physics provides a modern version of ancient spirituality. In a universe made out of energy, everything is entangled; everything is one.”

Source : "Has Modern Science Bankrupted Our Souls?" by Bruce Lipton, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 2, 2011.
“Many people do not know that Jesus did not speak Latin or English or Hebrew; he spoke Aramaic. But nobody knows that language. So we're talking about the Bible itself being a translation of a translation of a translation. And, in reality, it has affected people's lives in history.”
“The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.”
“Most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people.”

Source : Poems (1964) p. 8
“The phone's not ringing off the hook, but that's ok by me. I feel very fortunate, work to me has become a kind of hobby.”
“Caffeine is like a really attractive girl that has nothing to say. You get all jacked up on it and then you're left feeling hollow and empty.”

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