Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, Im really not worth being called an artist at all. – Lady Gaga
Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened. – Archie Shepp
I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldnt have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. – Mary Wesley
I look away at car crashes, and I know people who look away at car crashes, because it makes us uncomfortable to watch other people in pain. – John Mayer
