Mikal Quotes

#1. My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies.

Sinead O'Connor

#2. In some respects, grief for the lost and missing is worse than grief for the dead, and sometimes just for a fraction of a second its intensity makes her wish Mikal would cease to exist, so she wouldn't have to wonder if she will ever see him again.

Nadeem Aslam

#3. He said that even the damned in hell have the community of their suffering and he thought that he'd guessed out likewise for the living a nominal grief like a grange from which disaster and ruin are proportioned by laws of equity too subtle for divining.

Cormac McCarthy

#4. I had some pretty lucky and good living situations; thankfully I never got forced out of an apartment. A lot of my friends got evicted or pushed out and couldn't afford a new place. For me, I wanted more space to set up a home studio, but there was no way to afford that.

Mikal Cronin

#5. If love was the result of having caught a glimpse of another's loneliness, then he had loved Mikal since they were both ten years old.

Nadeem Aslam

#6. Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

Ovid

#7. I realize that people won't even download the entire album and might just download a song or two and put it in a playlist for a workout or in the background while people do dishes. That's fine and I can't dictate how people listen to my music, but I structure records the way I listen to records.

Mikal Cronin

#8. It seems like a cultural shift - you see less and less bands coming up and more people leaving.

Mikal Cronin

#9. No individual can win a game by himself.

Pele

#10. ONE BY ONE I HAD WATCHED THEM ALL DIE.

Mikal Gilmore

#11. A humble knowledge of thyself is a surer way to God than a deep search after learning.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. Three big islands, Kyushu, Shikoku, and Honshu? And thousands of little ones. There's another island far to the north - some say it's the mainland - called Hokkaido, but only hairy natives

James Clavell

#13. There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.

Mikal Cronin

#14. I think driving, at least for me, is a good way to listen to music. Sitting in traffic gives you time to listen to an entire record straight through and give it almost [your] full attention.

Mikal Cronin

#15. To be rooted is to say, here am I nourished and here will I grow, for I have found a place where every sunrise shows me how to be more than what I was yesterday, and I need not wander to feel the wonder of my blessing.

Kevin Hearne

#16. This is what a command is. Staring consequences in the eye and pretending not to flinch.

Scott Lynch

#17. No, I'm happy doing this. Five sweaters and a pair of dirty pants, you can make pretty good money.

McLean Stevenson