"I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives."

"We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music."

"We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me."

"I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied."

"Despite what the pundits want us to think, contested primaries aren't civil war, they are democracy at work, and that's beautiful."

"I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life."

"The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings."