Joe Perry

“Michael [Hutchence] is hands down one of the greatest frontmen in music. The style, the voice—all of it. Any way that I was ever influenced by him really comes down to small, pale imitations compared to the real thing. There is a fearlessness about him. Watching him at Wembley Stadium with 70,000 people, he looks as comfortable as if he were in his own living room.”
― Lori Majewski, Mad World: An Oral History of New Wave Artists and Songs That Defined the 1980s

“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.”
― Neil Gaiman

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
― Amy Bloom

“The single hardest thing for a practicing politician to understand is that most people, most of the time, don’t give politics a first thought all day long.”
― Tony Blair, A Journey: My Political Life