"I'm a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character." — Alfred Hitchcock

"Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like some imbecile. You don't know how paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, which says to the painter, ‘You can't do a thing’. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerizes some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. Many painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares and who has broken the spell of `you can't' once and for all." — Vincent van Gogh

i still miss someone - bob dylan, johnny cash

I Can't Leave Her Behind - Elston Gunn

You've Been Hiding Too Long {Live at Town Hall 1963} (22/25) - Elston Gunn

TateShots: Three Champions For Turner Monet Twombly

"It was one of those fine little love stories that can make you smile in your sleep at night." — Hunter S. Thompson

Soulsavers-Unbalanced Pieces

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Feeling Lucky

"Maybe the only thing each of us can see is our own shadow. Carl Jung called this his shadow work. He said we never see others. Instead we see only aspects of ourselves that fall over them. Shadows. Projections. Our associations. The same way old painters would sit in a tiny dark room and trace the image of what stood outside a tiny window, in the bright sunlight. The camera obscura. Not the exact image, but everything reversed or upside down." — Chuck Palahniuk

"Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things." — Edgar Degas

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. " — C.G. Jung

"There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth." — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin. Dance me through the panic ‘til I’m gathered safely in. Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove. Dance me to the end of love.” — Leonard Cohen

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." — Søren Kierkegaard

"Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!" — Bram Stoker

"Stay mad, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention." — Paulo Coelho

"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. " — Oscar Wilde

"Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass." — D.H. Lawrence

"Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel." — Neil Gaiman

Merchandise - Satellite

“She has a remarkable imagination. And that’s the nation where I live. She’s bold, inventive and fearless. That’s who you wanna go in the woods with, right? Somebody who finishes your sentences for you.” — Tom Waits

"Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being." — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there." — Henry Miller

"Those who are willing to be vulnerable move among mysteries." — Theodore Roethke

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful." — Milan Kundera

"By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired." — Franz Kafka

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them." — Jack Kerouac

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." — John Keats

"I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you'll dream dangerously and outrageously, that you'll make something that didn't exist before you made it, that you will be loved and that you will be liked, and that you will have people to love and to like in return. And, most importantly (because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now), that you will, when you need to be, be wise, and that you will always be kind." — Neil Gaiman

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us." — Joseph Campbell

"In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them." — Mark Twain

“The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief.” ― Jackson Pollock

Doves - At the tower (instrumental edit)

The Stone Roses - Love Spreads

Artie Shaw - Nightmare

Lou Reed - rare NZ interview 1984

Darker My Love - Talking Words

Joy Division "The Only Mistake"

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar." — Thích Nhất Hạnh

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you." — Rumi

"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness." — John Muir

"There's unconditional love there. You hear that phrase a lot but it's real with me and her [June Carter]. She loves me in spite of everything, in spite of myself. She has saved my life more than once. She's always been there with her love, and it has certainly made me forget the pain for a long time, many times. When it gets dark and everybody's gone home and the lights are turned off, it's just me and her." — Johnny Cash

"The energy of the mind is the essence of life." — Aristotle

“If you aren’t going to say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all.” — Johnny Cash.

"People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive." — Joseph Campbell

And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible certainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one's dreams would have no meaning." — Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

"Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art." — Maya Angelou

Bruce Springsteen - 1978 Interview - by Bob Harris

Edith Piaf - Padam Padam

Charlie Parker - All the things you are

"Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." — Hermann Hesse

"When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence." — Ansel Adams

“If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.” ― Seamus Heaney

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life." — Walt Whitman

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea." — Robert A. Heinlein

"The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes." — Eckhart Tolle

"Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence." — Barbara Marciniak

"I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light." — Helen Keller

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." — Bob Marley