Happiness is essentially a gift; we are not the forgers of our own felicity.
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive
Looking hard for a drive in, searching for a corner cafe, where the hamburgers sizzle on an open grill night and day.
I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.
It's gotta be rock and roll music, if you wanna dance with me.
Don't let the same dog bite you twice.
Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.
When somebody wants to work and believes in something, it doesn't matter if you're well known or rich or whatever it is.
Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.
Nowadays men cannot love seven night but they must have all their desires: that love may not endure by reason; for where they be soon accorded and hasty, heat soon it cooleth. Right so fareth love nowadays, soon hot soon cold: this is no stability. But the old love was not so.