Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Francis Bacon

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

Anonymous

Thanks partly to the kind of poets that we now have and partly to funding, there's been a gigantic shift in the way poetry is perceived... Poems on the Underground, poets in schools, football clubs, zoos.

Andrew Motion

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.

Voltaire

I got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.

Robin Trower

Good habits are formed; bad habits we fall into.

Source Unknown

We all know we're one day closer to the end when we wake up in the morning. We just kid ourselves that it's not happening.

Rachel Ward

I imagine a line, a white line, painted on the sand and on the ocean, from me to you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

The limits of my language means the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

Bo Bennett

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Unworthy offspring brag the most about their worthy descendants.

Danish proverb