“You know, there’s such a very thin dividing line between inspiration and obsession that sometimes it’s very hard to decide which side we’re really on.”

There is a natural opposition among men to anything they have not thought of themselves.

It’s not bringing in the new ideas that’s so hard; it’s getting rid of the old ones.

Very often people who admit the facts, who are willing to see that Mr. Rockefeller has employed force and fraud to secure his ends, justify him by declaring, ‘It’s business.’ That is, ‘it’s business’ has come to be a legitimate excuse for hard dealing, sly tricks, special privileges.

It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.

This war differs from other wars, in this particular. We are not fighting armies but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war.

I think what’s hard for me is not that I don’t get downtime to chill, it’s that I don’t get time to make music.

Pop artists work really hard, and they might not work for the same things that indie artists do, but they’re still musicians, and they’re still making art.

When you love someone and care about them, you want what’s best for them, and it’s always the hardest thing to realize maybe you aren’t what’s best for them, how hard you try.

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.