The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

Let's be naughty and save Santa the trip.

Gary Allan

I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

Winston Churchill

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Alice Meynell

Some people think technology has the answers.

Kevin Mitnick

I've crashed my car three times.

Billy Joel

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

Virginia Woolf

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Jean Genet

If Germany, thanks to Hitler and his successors, were to enslave the European nations and destroy most of the treasures of their past, future historians would certainly pronounce that she had civilized Europe.

Simone Weil

But Philip was impatient with himself; he called to mind his idea of the pattern of life: the unhappiness he had suffered was no more than part of a decoration which was elaborate and beautiful; he told himself strenuously that he must accept with gaiety everything, dreariness and excitement, pleasure and pain, because it added to the richness of the design.

W. Somerset Maugham

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

Dan Auerbach

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

James Russell Lowell

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

Thomas Paine