That's always been a dream for me, to be able to collaborate and make music with the people that inspired you to make music.

One thing that you hope for when you want to be a musician is that you have that recognizable sound.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

You feel different every day of your life. You just have to create your own space to survive, personally and professionally.

I'm doing the best I can with what I got and that's all anybody in my band is doing.

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Times change and you have to adapt.

Like everybody, I'm making up my life as I go along.

Success has a lot to do with luck, but it also involves a lot of real hard work. The thing about success is you really can't gauge things by album sales.

When power ballads come back, we'll get big hair again.

A poem is a frozen momentmelted by each reader for themselvesto flow into the here and now.

I demand a lot from myself and reflect this attitude upon others: I consider it to be an important quality for a leader. I also think it is impossible to achieve success without persistence.

Some horror movies are just for shock value, so it doesn't really feel scary.

Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.

More than fans, they felt like a team of morale-boosters who would always be around to remind me of my own worth

...remember one thing only: that it's you-nobody else-who determines your destiny and decides your fate. Nobody else can be alive for you; nor can you be alive for anybody else.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

I think the Space Shuttle is worth one billion dollars a launch. I think that it is worth two billion dollars for what it does. I think the Shuttle is worth it for the work it does.

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations.