Everyone responds to kindness.
I think it's morally wrong to keep someone away from what keeps him happy.
The same sensations that you get in heavy metal are in horror movies. Heavy metal sounds evil and horror movies are evil, ha ha!
My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head.
A life lived unexplored is a life not worth living.
Everyone has a side to them that's kind of unexplained and feels misunderstood.
Just because you know umpteen billion scales, it doesn't mean you have to use them all in a solo.
Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?
On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.
We hear the stories every day now: the father who puts on a suit every morning and leaves the house so his daughter doesn't know he lost his job, the recent college grad facing up to the painful reality that the only door that's open to her after four years of study and a pile of debt is her parents'. These are the faces of the Obama economy.
Content is built on communication. You can't learn anything if you haven't learned how to understand language, or to read.