If someone wants to be very tight about authenticity or ownership, it just sounds kind of competitive to me.

I was told that my best-case scenario would likely consist of writing my memoir and then disappearing.

Instead of working for the survival of the fittest, we should be working for the survival of the wittiest - then we can all die laughing.

I write - and then I write some more.

The metaphor of the subterranean is at work in a lot of Northwest writers and artists. Zooming in closer and closer and closer, then below, to the worms and the centipede.

If you are insecure, then you can't be friends with anyone.

If Morrissey could be a singer, then anybody could.

I studied at university for a term and a day, and then I dropped out.

Americans care a lot about authenticity, rightly so. Every election is a quest for the genuine article. This is precisely what makes the long con of American politics such a rich and mystifying study.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

If it's boring, then it's tiring.

Everything that can strengthen Abu Mazen is favourable.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Then it was that were passed the laws restricting emancipation and prohibiting education.

I have been firming up and making changes in my roster for 2001. This needs to be done from now and then, to make sure what you are booking is working, and to keep a balance in your roster that works.

We have to preserve folk in its authenticity. Else folk will become fake.

The roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.

You don't have to commit a lot of fouls, especially if you are 1-0 down. If you are 1-0 down, then don't commit 10 fouls in the next ten minutes.

If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.