I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time.

Bruce Cockburn

Truth.It feels cool, like water washing over my sticky-hot body. Cooling a heat that's been burning me up all my life.Truth, I say inside my head again, just for that feeling.

Kathryn Stockett

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a new heaven first found the power thereto in his own hell.

Friedrich Nietzsche

An element of fantasy is needed when falling in love and I was unable to find the fantasy element with any of the male gender

Novala Takemoto

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Tony Blair

I now work for a finance company in Luxembourg with projects in South America and the Caribbean.

Mathias Rust

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Stephen King

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

Bubba Watson

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.

Hilaire Belloc

The problems of society will also be the problems of the predominant language of that society. It is the carrier of its perceptions, its attitudes, and its goals, for through it, the speakers absorb entrenched attitudes. The guilt of English then must be recognized and appreciated before its continued use can be advocated.

Njabulo Ndebele

It was sad when Sid Vicious died... I was freaked out when Phil Lynott died from Thin Lizzy. I cried. It was too crazy.

Dee Dee Ramone

People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.

David Attenborough