Pop music has always adopted the style of marrying upbeat melodies to dour lyrics.

An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck.

It is better to live presently. By living thus, perhaps we can learn to understand the nature of this fragile coexistence we share with the world around us.

As she walked, she breathed a quick benediction to the patron saint of sleuthing. "Nancy Drew," she whispered, "be with me now.

You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.

When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.

I'd rather have a strong career, playing and selling records to a loyal audience, then having one record that exploded. That would be devastating.

And I am a writer, writer of fictions I am the heart that you call home And I've written pages upon pages Trying to rid you from my bones.

One thing about hanging out with a baby is that you can remember a little bit better what it was like to be a kid, and all the mystery that came along with it.

Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.

There's some things there that you just have to draw the line. Some people are just not going to like it. We would hope that everybody would like it.

Her legs are two rivers, and the delta where they bleed into each other is the well of ecstasy.

O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

I had only two jobs my entire life Taco Bell for six months and Kroger's Food store for one day!

You have to gain respect from your teammates. You have to earn it.

falsehood is not more unjustifiable than unsafe.

Life without industry is guilt, and industry without art is brutality.

Some of those drawn into the holy war had been secular nationalists only a few years before. If one looks at the biographies of these people, remarkable continuities are revealed.

Right here, you're killing me.

A sociologist without an archive is like a person without a memory.

Perfect imitations must share the fate of the originals.