I mean its funny, playing music, how of course you want it to do well, you want them to like it, but its not competitive like an election, its the Olympics, its not a Formula 1 race. The Billboard charts are just to show you what people like. – Eddie Van Halen
In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. Theyre short, theyre intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article. – Caroline Kennedy
There lurks, perhaps, in every human heart a desire of distinction, which inclines every man first to hope, and then to believe, that Nature has given him something peculiar to himself. – Samuel Johnson
