Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and creating an outlet for them.

Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity and self-expression.

Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.

I could use a punching bag and some painkillers right now.

Touch'd either the Passions of Rage or Grief to a Miracle.