“Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing ...” — Iris Dement Quote

“Some guy refuses to fight and we call that the sin, but he's standing up for what he believes in and that seems pretty damned American to me.”

“Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.”

“If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.”

“We have a Conservative leader that believes in green taxes, that won't bring back grammar schools, that believes in continuing with total open-door migration from eastern Europe and refuses to give us a referendum on the EU.”

“I like to chat either at my site or, sometimes, through MSN and ICQ. And even if I do reveal my identity, there are a lot of times when no one believes me.”

“Almost nobody believes anymore that infants are insensate blobs. It seems both mad and evil to deny experience and feeling to a laughing, gurgling creature.”