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1 " My group has to do the Eighth Amendment, which is the one about cruel and unusual punishment. I'm not sure why group work isn't counted in that amendment. "
― Kirstin Cronn-Mills , Beautiful Music for Ugly Children
2 " „You know, life is just programmed chaos. Everybody starts out on one side—that’s the programmed part. But then chaos happens, and our album flips. We get fat or thin, or dye our hair and pierce our nose. But those are just our outsides. Our insides are still beautiful, even if we think we’re ugly children. "
3 " What's life without loud music? "
4 " Whoever you are, you're plenty. "
5 " That's what bites about the future -- there's no way to predict it. You just have to show up and see what happens. "
6 " Is this what being a grown-up is like ? Badness and goodness squished together in a big ball of craziness ? "
7 " I will survive, jackoffs. Just watch me. "
8 " I'm analog, Wall of Sound, old school to the core, and it's time to let my B side play. "
9 " I actually feel about 15 percent peaceful, which is a huge improvement over my normal 5 percent. "
10 " we sit down with a copy of Rolling Stone from the early eighties to argue about whether Face Dances by the Who (John’s choice) or Emotional Rescue from the Stones (my choice) was the lamest sellout album for a super group. "
11 " I’ve seen a lotta things, done a lotta things, and known a lotta people.' His accent is back. 'The strangest person I ever met was a sword-swallower. A guy with a coochie snorcher is nothing compared to a dude who puts sharp metal in his guts. Who’d want to do that?' His face tells me that he’s utterly, utterly serious. 'You are you. That’s all there is to it. "