Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.

Without an education, you won't have a future.

I think of the thrill of an intelligent woman talking just to me.

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

Quite often governments are one way and the people are another.

For me the music is not so much anger as much as it is of passion. And I've always associated that kind of intense emotional output with music just because the nature of the music that's attracted me as far as live.