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I grew up in an affluent suburban world and never worried about money until I'd grown up and found wonderfully original ways to screw up my life.


K. A. Applegate

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A. A. MILNE For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE The book that he has made renders its author this service in return, that so long as the book survi...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY) You, O Books, are the golden vessels of the temple, the arms of the clerical militia with which the...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY) Books are delightful when prosperity happily smiles; when adversity threatens, they are inseparable...
RICHARD AUNGERVYLE (AUNGERVILLE) (A/K/A RICHARD DE BURY) When I was growing up, I wasn't in bands, and had really no intention of ever doing music. I wen...
K. FLAY My songs are a mix of my own weird raised-by-wolves perspective and civilization.
K. FLAY I went in reverse with this whole thing. People I've toured with were kids who consumed as much ...
K. FLAY A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
K. FLAY I think, on the rap side of life, I've always been inspired by and respected Missy Elliott for a...
K. FLAY Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuse...
K. FLAY Pre-show, I warm up my voice, stretch, do a little team huddle, and sometimes throw a shot of whiske...
K. FLAY I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost...
K. FLAY My dad was a serious alcoholic, and ultimately, that's why he died. When you're a child of s...
K. FLAY I love playing in Chicago. It's the memory lane hometown, which is really nice.
K. FLAY I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present...
K. FLAY The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or...
K. FLAY When I first started making music, I was all about wordplay and how fast I could rap, but over the y...
K. FLAY As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empower...
K. FLAY More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. FLAY It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can'...
K. FLAY Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a ...
K. FLAY There are people who are profoundly mentally ill. But we now have a very weird perspective on mental...
K. FLAY There's something distinct and interesting about a live performance. There's this weird imme...
K. FLAY My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates el...
K. FLAY Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even af...
K. FLAY A college degree is not essential, but if you're already in college, and if it's at all poss...
K. FLAY Feeling anxious or depressed sometimes is part of what it means to be a person, and it might even be...
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