Jake Shears Quotes

#1. There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.

Ray Bradbury

#2. I think that the job of poetry, its political job, is to refresh the idea of justice, which is going dead in us all the time.

Robert Hass

#3. We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.

Jimmy Carter

#4. I'm kind of an evangelical atheist.

Brian Eno

#5. In this era , we face the biggest issue of humanity is people becoming heartless & Intolerant

Marisa Ardani

#6. My mom's a Christian and she loves me; that whole side of my family is Christian and I have no problem with it.

Jake Shears

#7. I travel so much and am always living out of a suitcase, so my favorite saying is 'Wherever you go, there you are'. I love it because it's reassuring to me that you have to live in the moment wherever you happen to be.

Jake Shears

#8. I love Rebel Rebel in Manhattan's West Village for vinyl, but record stores are hard to come by these days. I almost don't even use iTunes. I mostly use music subscription services. But I'll go into Rebel Rebel once a month or so and buy everything I love on vinyl.

Jake Shears

#9. In some ways Lawler is a conceptual Diane Arbus. She's a stalker who takes advantage of situations. She pulls back curtains, causing normal things to look freakish and the freakish to turn mundane.

Jerry Saltz

#10. I don't let things stress me out, and I'm doing my best with all the battles life presents.

Jake Shears

#11. I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and vegetables and spinach shakes.

Jake Shears

#12. I've been a much happier person in my early thirties than I was in my twenties.

Jake Shears

#13. I dreamed I read the cards for you," she said.
"And?"
"And I predicted I would bring heartbreak and trouble into your life," she said.
"Too late," he said, staring down at their joined hands. "Heartbreak and trouble got there ahead of you.

Cinda Williams Chima

#14. Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

Natalie Goldberg

#15. It is wonderful how Virtue turns from dirty stockings; and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance.
From Charles Dickens' Preface to Oliver Twist, printed in 1841

Charles Dickens

#16. Everyone's the same. All brains are contained by their reality frame and chained to the terrain that they're trained not to change and once you see what I've explained you've hit the jackpot.

Eyedea

#17. Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.

Frederick Buechner

#18. My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'

Jake Shears