“"But please, when you see an opportunity..." He presses his hand to my cheek, cold and strong, and tilts my head up so I have to look at him. His eyes glint. They almost look predatory. "Ruin them."”
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Regretful Quotes — page 135 of 169
“I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie.”
“Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.”
“When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.”
“My greatest regret is selling my company.”
“I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time”
“The haters just got to hate so just shake it of.”
“Now stand in the corner, and think about what you've done!”
“Every one of my regrets has produced a song I'm proud of.”
“Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.”
“No amount of vintage dresses gives you dignity”
“Bring on all the pretenders!”
“I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.”
“The one place where I'm allowed to rebel, and the one place where I'm allowed to not worry about censoring myself is my music.”
“People talk to me a lot about, "Why don't you ever rebel?" And I feel like I do rebel. To me, rebelling is - is that rush you get when you sing a song about someone and you know they're in the crowd.”
“I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.”
“When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I tried to obscure my identity into the identity of a collective or band or whatever. That's part of the reason that I used to play with backing tapes and why so much of my early stuff was so awash in tape hiss and echo noise.”
“I am the enfant terrible of literature and science. If I cannot, and I know I cannot, get the literary and scientific bigwigs to give me a shilling, I can, and I know I can, heave bricks into the middle of them.”
“For nonconformity the world will whip you with its displeasure.”
“Society does not love its unmaskers.”