I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Ezra Pound

Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.

Angela Lambert

The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise.

Roger Ebert

Be your character what it will, it will be known; and nobody will take it upon your word.

Lord Chesterfield

For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.

Taylor Swift

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death -- that is heroism.

Robert G. Ingersoll

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

Alexander Chase

An anniversary is the perfect time to celebrate all the missed opportunities to correct a mistake, and even take vows to renew it.

Bauvard

I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.

George Burns

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

Plato

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest

Benjamin Franklin

I grew up in Marcy Projects in Brooklyn, and my mom and pop had an extensive record collection, so Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder and all of those sounds and souls of Motown filled the house.

Jay-Z