I dabbled in things like Howlin' Wolf, Cream and Led Zeppelin, but when I heard Son House and Robert Johnson, it blew my mind. It was something I'd been missing my whole life. That music made me discard everything else and just get down to the soul and honesty of the blues.

The songs keep on writing themselves, and I really love them. It's as close as I get to a religion.

Kristin Hersh

Cats may walk by themselves, but there are times when they need our support.

Nicholas Dodman

One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.

Jan de Bont

Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.

Carol Ann Duffy

The more perfect a thing is, the more susceptible to good and bad treatment it is.

Dante Alighieri

To make a rock'n'roll record, technology is the least important thing.

Keith Richards

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

Dan Aykroyd

Death is the destination we all share, no one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be because death is very likely the single best invention of life.

Steve Jobs

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

Diablo Cody

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!

Don Mashak

The limousine is the ultimate ego trip, the supreme sign of success. It shouts: Hey, this guy is really and truly Mr Big.

William Proxmire, Testimony to H