Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

Make yourself do something stupid so when you really do something stupid you won't feel so bad

Life's too short to sit through songs you don't love.

The strongest human emotion is probably love. I think it's universal. I think that across language and country and time and everything else, probably love.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

The Beatles never get old.