“It’s like in the great stories - the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something … that there’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

-Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers

“We cannot fathom why people would stand across the street, easily a hundred feet away, when they could be so close, near us.”

“Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.”
-T. S. Eliot 

“I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.” -Orson Welles

Right now this quote speaks to me a lot, I am sort of at an in-between place with my art and unsure of what direction to go in, make me realize I need to stop thinking and worrying about it so much and just create stuff and not care about being “with it”.

 I just made the 6 hour flight back to San Francisco and its definitely good to be back. Todays quote is in the spirit of travel!

 “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” - Jack Kerouac

I love music, its a major part of my life, I watch a lot of rock documentaries and read memories ect, so here are some of my favorite quotes from some of my favorite musicians!

1. “I was a rust repairer. I was a rust repairer and full-time survivor. I survived all the major earthquakes, and the Titanic, and several air crash.” -Keith Moon (on being asked what he did before The Who)

2. “We didn’t all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth - and get lots of girls.”-Paul McCartney

3. “I mean, Eighteen years old is the age of consent in Europe and you can go anywhere and do anything you like. In America, it is dumb. At eighteen you should be able to do anything that you like, except get married.” -John Entwistle 

4. “When things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.”-Jimi Hendrix

5. “Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable.” -Grace Slick

6. “You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, ‘Mick, it’s time to get yourself a new spoon.’ And you do. ” -Mick Jagger

7. “I was born with a plastic spoon in my mouth. ” -Pete Townshend

8. “All I can do is be me, whoever that is. ” -Bob Dylan

9. “I think of myself as an intelligent, sensitive human being with the soul of a clown which always forces me to blow it at the most important moments.” -Jim Morrison

10. “Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.” -Janis Joplin

“It took us so long to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

— Kurt Vonnegut.

Such a wonderful happy little quote from one of my favorite authors!

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

-Friedrich Nietzsche