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“I do find it easy to write songs about heartbreak; it comes really naturally to me. It was a little bit more difficult for me to break my mould and tackle different subjects. You know what it's like because you're a writer. You don't want to tread on the same territory. Writing about the personal stuff was a little difficult because I'd worry about who would read it and who would be offended by it.”
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“What more can life hold, than to know that because of your story, somebody out there has decided to read again!”
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“I feel like humans are a disease. It's a hard thing to communicate in a pop song. I mean, who wants to hear that?”
Source : Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. July 29, 2014.
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“Everyone gets wounded in this world and everyone has within them some golden qualities that can serve to heal the wounds of time and the traumatic effects of human tragedy.”
Source : "Golden Repair of the Cracks in the World" by Michael Meade, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2014.
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“Or you can be like the Soviet Union, start out with ideals, and end up ceasing to exist.”
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“The only thing that helps you win the game is preparation and getting your mind ready to go to battle. That's what you've got to do.”
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“Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of men saying, 'What? I'm looking at the baby.'”
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“Release the joy that is inside of another, and you release the joy that is inside of you.”
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“Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.”
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“Metaphysics is the clearing house for all fundamental philosophical problems.”
Source : Joseph Alexander Leighton (1922). “Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.”