Kennedy Cox

“My love hadn’t diminished - it never would - but at times my patience was wearing thin. Waylon’s wandering ways hadn’t completely stopped and yet I remained resolute. I stayed.”
― Jessi Colter, An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought me Home

“My mouth hasn't shut up about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it again is stuck in my brain, which hasn't stopped thinking about you since, well, before any kiss. And now the prospect of those kisses seems to wind me like when you slip on the stairs, and one of the steps hits you in the middle of the back. The notion of them continuing for what is traditionally terrifying forever excites me to an unfamiliar degree.”
― Alex Turner

“I've tried every approach to living, and I've tried it all. I haven't tried everything, but I've tried every approach. Sometimes you have to try everything to get the approach the same, but I tried it all. I bought a bunch of stuff and went, “Eh, I don't like that.” I kinda came in and out of that a couple of times. I thought I would shut myself off. I thought, “Maybe that's cool. Maybe that's what you have to do to be a genius. Is it you have to be mad?” So if you get mad before the word genius, then maybe you can make genius appear, right? That doesn't work either. And I'm in a good place. I've paced myself pretty well. I'm thirty. I've seen some cool stuff. I made a lot of stuff happen for myself. I made a lot of stuff happen for myself, right? That's a really cool sentence when you're in your twenties: “I made it happen for myself.” But all that means is that I've just somehow or another found another way to synthesize love or synthesize soothing. Or you can't get that. And what I'm saying is that I've messed with all the approaches, except for one, and it's gonna sound really corny, but that's just love. That's just love.
I've done everything in my life that I've wanted to do except just give and feel love for my living. And I don't mean like Roman-candle-firework-Hollywood-hot-pink-love. I mean like, “I got your back,” love! I don't need to hear, “I love you.” You guys love me. I love you. We got that down. But some of the people who will tell you they love you, the same people who're gonna last, just have your back. So I'm gonna experiment with this “love” thing. Giving love, feeling love. I know it sounds really corny, but it's the last thing I got to check out before I check out. Take me in the solo one more time. Make it loud! Thank you!”
― John Mayer

“There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see them.”
― Henri Matisse