Masculinity is part of a binary and requires its opposite, since, in the absence of femininity, masculinity would have no meaning.
When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.
You knew after eight bars that you were hearing something just absolutely new and unique.
The world is a pile of grunge.
Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing.
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
Songs suffer at the mercy of the performer.
If all of us work in accordance with rule of law, if rule of law is implemented, we are all safe, investors are safe, people will be safe.
What Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday. . . he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same. He wanted, quite simply, for the world to be a better place, and he was in the habit of hoping for it.
That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away. " But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.
I believe that words can help us move or keep us paralyzed, and that our choices of language and verbal tone have something - a great deal - to do with how we live our lives.