“Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Servic...” — Henry Rollins Quote

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.

I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like, none.

One of the nice things about a favorite pop song is that it's an unconditional truce on judgment and musical snobbery. You like the song because you just do, and there need not be any further criticism.

Castle Face Records, run by The Oh Sees main man, Johnny Dwyer is always worth checking in with.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.

Throughout America's history, the start of adult life for women - whatever else it might have been destined to include - had been typically marked by marriage.

The great folk hymns are a perfect marriage of text and tune. There are those that have nice messages and some with good music, but it is such a bonus when they are both wonderful.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.