Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

[I]m Hain des Tempels und im Schatten der Zitadelle habe ich die Freiesten unter euch ihre Freiheit als Joch und Handschellen tragen sehen.

Kahlil Gibran

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Charles Caleb Colton

The first reading of a Will, where a person dies worth anything considerable, generally affords a true test of the relations' love to the deceased.

Samuel Richardson

Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion.

George Byron

Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!

Edna Ferber

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jesse Jackson

I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death.

Peter Steele

How much pain worries have cost us that have never happened?

Thomas Jefferson

The most fundamental tragedy of my life is that the ones who I see do not existand the one who exists I do not see.

Kedar Joshi

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

I think it's almost an indulgence to focus on the dark side of things. And as you get older, you want to focus on the positive.

Rob Brydon

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo Buonarroti