The most important thing in a piece of music is to seduce people to the point where they start searching.
To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing).
And another thing is that I think as a church whenever we become politically driven, we alienate at least 50 percent of the people that God called us to reach with our political orientations.
Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing.
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.
Steven Pinker says, the invention of printing and the widespread appearance of fiction - this taught empathy. If you read a novel, you're in someone else's head, in three, five different people's heads. Suddenly, the principle of "Don't do anything to anyone that you wouldn't want done to you" becomes real in people's minds. That's a fantastic achievement if fiction is indeed partly responsible for it. That's a great thing to be a part of. In the end, then, I don't know if writers have legislated, but they have civilized.
Buying stock is exactly the same thing as going to a casino, only with no cocktail service.
I miss singing very, very much, but the best thing is I have never been busier.
The thing is that the money issue looms so large in art now. And it has absolutely nothing to do with art. If you're painting goes for ten grand or a hundred grand, it doesn't make painting any easier. And it doesn't make the painting any better if it goes for a hundred grand.
The real champions in life are so humble and gracious. They just continue doing what they do without all the posturing. If you've got the real thing, you don't have to flaunt a loud imitation.
There is one thing on earth more terrible than English music, and that is English painting.
A song to me is a very tangible thing. I can feel it with my hands and see it with my eyes.
The thing is, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
Like I said in my election manifesto - why don't they legalise the whole thing and let people like me work?
Love? he asked himself, giving no sense of recognition for that word in the dictionary of his mind. It was the only battle he had lost in life, the only thing that had been snatched away from him, before he could even claim it.
If I could tell you only one thing about my life it would be this: when I was seven years old the mailman ran over my head.
The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.
The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how
One more thing," Jace said. "Is there a holy place around here?" “Good idea. If you're going to take on a lair of vampires by yourself, you'd better pray first.