We're happy with what we've achieved. Every record we've made has furthered the growth of our line of success. It's never disappeared or gone backward: each record sells more, each tour is bigger.

I play guitar because I like to make loud noises. And the guitar is the coolest way to make a loud noise.

I'm still an angry dude. I'm just older. I still push the band to be heavy and dark-that's always been my role.

Being a rock star is really a 24-hour-a-day job, and you really can't escape it.

Love makes the journey we call life worthwhile.

In the evenings she got on her knees and inflicted her piety on her sister:

When you don't know where you're going, maybe it wasn't such a bad thing to have more than you need.

I made that up. You know Marcus. He got lost once in his own museum.

Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with Jews building houses in Israel than with Muslims building a nuclear bomb in Iran.

When I was young I was soft spoken and a little bit timid and passive. My dream then was to be a ballerina or a figure skater - something very delicate.

Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth.

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

Today, the world can appear fragmented and its people disconnected, mosaics allow me to fuse the pieces together to create something cohesive and beautiful , what I wish the world could be.

I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.