People of art should never get married and have children, because it's a selfish experience.

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion.

William C. Bryant

You cannot do everything at once, so find people you trust to help you. And don't be afraid to say no.

Jane Seymour

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

Albert Camus

I think a lot of stuff I find funny is from day dreaming.

Demetri Martin

Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.

Anthony Robbins

To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.

Ghose Aurobindo

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is not simply another commodity. On the contrary. Knowledge is never used up. It increases by diffusion and grows by dispersion.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

Steve Earle

We went with the St. Lawrence Experience, which is run by Joe Babbitt, who is a close friend now. We went out there for 10 days and we had the best week of our lives, and we've been going back since. We've been back three times now.

Tom Felton

There's the famous thing that the A&ampR man from the record company is supposed to do: He's supposed to come into the studio and listen to the songs you've been recording and then say, 'Guys, I don't hear any singles.' And then everybody falls into a terrible depression because you have to write one.

Jarvis Cocker

That one must either explain life to oneself so that it does not seem to be an evil mockery by some sort of devil, or one must shoot oneself.

Leo Tolstoy