And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

What fun it would be, " he thought, "if one didn't have to think about happiness!

Shakespeare: …the best way to peace is to have a still and quiet conscience. Or none at all, thought Gamache.

The first thing I did [in Michigan] was join a picket line of a pizzeria in Ann Harbor in 1963 that didn't allow African Americans to eat there.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

Singing has always seemed to me the most perfect means of expression. It is so spontaneous. And after singing, I think the violin. Since I cannot sing, I paint.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.

The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.

I was just thinking – today is the first and last day of forever. It’s kind of hard to wrap my head around it. Even with all this extra room for wrapping.