The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, youre in control of your life. If you dont, life controls you. – Tony Robbins
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think thats healthy when youre learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape. – Andrew Dost
The truth is that there is only one terminal dignity – love. And the story of a love is not important – what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity. – Helen Hayes