Frank Black Quotes
I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.
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Hope is not a matter of age.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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You can't reorder any society from outside. You can help from within.
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Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
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I think that kids need to grow up watching what I grew up watching - great entertainment; you know, Judy Garland and all these musicals that bring song and dance and acting all together in a polished way.
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I was writing at a really young age, but it took me a long time to be brave enough to become a published writer, or to try to become a published writer. It's a very public way to fail. And I was kind of scared, so I started out as a ghost writer, and I wrote for other series, like Disney 'Aladdin' and 'Sweet Valley' and books like that.
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A society that admits misery, a humanity that admits war, seem to me an inferior society and a debased humanity; it is a higher society and a more elevated humanity at which I am aiming - a society without kings, a humanity without barriers.
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You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
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Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
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Infant mortality and life expectancy are reasonable indicators of general well-being in a society.
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I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that I'm ever gonna write a song that you will know who it's about.
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I'd like to do a completely off-the-wall collaboration. I would like one of my songs to be the hook to a rap song. That would be so much fun!
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When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.
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'Can't Get Closer' I originally recorded in about half an hour, just on my bed with a microphone. I actually re-recorded the song with a cleaner vocal take, but I decided to leave the demo version on there, just because I felt that instant where it was created is what captured the most emotion.
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Athletes can definitely have an impact on society. And it's great that athletes can be a part of uniting the population.
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We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human - a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.
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The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King.
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One of the reasons I've been able to be productive is that I want to do everything.
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I can kind of make money through my other passion, which is brewing, and that's a pretty stable business, and it would free up my timeslot to take roles that I really liked and that I thought were interesting.
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Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing.
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I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.
