Contempt is frequently regulated by fashion.
If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.
Playing things too safe is the most popular way to fail.
Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like. . . only a freak. A freak among other freaks
I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.
I didn't have a hard time making it. I had a hard time letting it go.
Everything means nothing to me
Repentance grows as faith grows. Do not make any mistake about it; repentance is not a thing of days and weeks, a temporary penance to be got over as fast as possible! No; it is the grace of a lifetime, like faith itself. God's little children repent, and so do the young men and the fathers. Repentance is the inseparable companion of faith.
The Brothers Grimm came along and I was so desperate for work. . . Actually I've got to say that I like the movie, I won't apologize for it.
I found out that drama was a fascinating exercise as a way to get out of my self and into somebody else's head.
Great, they give blind kids guns," I said, trying to lessen his horror. "I don't even let Iggy have a gun. Usually.