It's funny, when bands or younger musicians ask me: 'So, what does it take to make it?' Well, first explain to me what you mean by 'making it': Do you want to be a rock star or do you want music to be your livelihood?

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde

Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

Friedrich von Schiller

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

H. L. Mencken

The most disastrous phenomenon of the current situation is the factor that imperialism is employing for its own ends all the powers of the proletariat, all of its institutions and weapons, which its fighting vanguard has created for its war of liberation.

Clara Zetkin

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

I've screwed everything up royally. I remember you saying that growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.

Cassandra Clare

Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.

Quincy Jones

A wise traveler never despises his own country.

William Hazlitt

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Voltaire (FrançoisMarie Arouet)

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act.

Marty Feldman

If you love something, let it go...

Karen Schreck

When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.

Shannon L. Alder