Part of the joy of music is listening to lots of different kinds of music and learning from it. Specifically for me, I like writing songs that move me, and what moves me are beautiful songs on the piano or the guitar and really, really heavy music. – Ryan Adams
Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe. – Germaine Greer
When youre 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when youre 21 and youve read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they werent really good. OK, lets be honest. A lot of them were crap. – Patrick Rothfuss
