My dad is a lawyer and my mom is an artist. So growing up was exactly what it sounds like - strict household but a lot of creativity. They are so psyched that I get to make music for a living. My parents rule.

A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate, who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.

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Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.

Thomas Jefferson

Let us believe neither half of the good people tell us of ourselves, nor half the evil they say of others.

J. PetitSenn

I was the originator of smack. Some guys rattle with smack; with other guys it rolls right off their shoulders like nothing.

Deacon Jones

Travel, instead of broadening the mind, often merely lengthens the conversation.

Elizabeth Drew

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Charles Baudelaire

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Rumi

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

E.M. Forster

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

Charles Prestwich Scott

Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, There are no answers.

Ray Bradbury

Red Dawn' was really the most fun I ever had making a movie, because I love Westerns, and I love the idea of being a tomboy, and riding horses and shooting guns.

Lea Thompson