I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.

A message prepared in the mind reaches a mind; a message prepared in a life reaches a life.

Bill Gothard

I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.

Laurence Housman

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now.

Kate DiCamillo

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Heidi Klum

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

David Lloyd George

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

Love's a disease. But curable.

Rose Macaulay

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools.

Michael Leboeuf