Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

Paul McCartney

As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.

Edith Piaf

I was on the football team because I wanted to experience the different iconic social classes of high school. So football for me was an attempt to socially integrate in an interesting way. And then I didn't like it anymore and stopped doing it and focused more on drama and science and other forms of art and music.

Reggie Watts

Nakao: Koizumi, I'm so sorry I said such cruel things.Otani: What's that?Nakao: The whispering of your heart.

Heikichi Nakao Otani

The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.

Aldous Huxley

Fire is never a gentle master

Proverb

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

George Herbert

There are many different stories to tell. It's never the same. Every day weather blows in and out, alters the surface. Sometimes it is stripped down to a single essential truth, the thing that is always believed, no matter what. The seeds from which the garden has grown.

Helen Humphreys

You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

W. H. Auden

Between the optimist and the pessimist, the difference is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut; the pessimist the hole!

Mclandburgh Wilson

All problems are finally scientific problems.

George Bernard Shaw

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old there is no respect for age. I missed it coming and going.

J. B. (John Boynton) Priestley