Quote Tag

It’s really a sad story, and I liked that. The songs on this album talk about relationships in every aspect.

Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

Peter is an old friend. I’m heartbroken, but he’s also a tough guy. I’m counting on him getting through this very difficult passage.

I don’t remember what was going through my mind, but what was going through my body was fear and terror. I had been on the road with Johnny and working gigs and playing a lot of the organ clubs.

I’ve always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.