Music files and downloading have indeed changed the currency of music to a great degree.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.

I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.

I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.

There’s one thing about Black Sabbath which should not be understated: If Black Sabbath is missing any one of its members it’s no longer Black Sabbath.

We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.

No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

I've got my private life - that's sacred - and I didn't have that before.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.

Champions come and go, but to be legendary you got to have heart, more heart than the next man, more than anyone in the world.

There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen.

Category after category, Barack Obama hasn't met the promises that he laid out to the American people.

Avarice is the miser's dream, as fame is the poet's.