#start

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar. ↗

— Andy Partridge

#guitar #i #influential #more #play

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going

It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#establish #far #good #liked #long

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comedians #comics #could #doing #i

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#autobiography #early #going #i #journal

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#comic #comic book #doing #great #great opportunity

It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to invest their Social Security taxes in personal savings accounts. ↗

— Mike Pence

#allowing #fund #invest #personal #personal savings

In the early '90s, when those little art films started coming out, we were introduced to Quentin Tarantino and guys like that, and independent cinema was something that everyone wanted to be a part of. ↗

— Ron Perlman

#cinema #coming #early #everyone #films

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. ↗

— Tom Petty

#around #falling #fifties #flies #get

I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad. ↗

— Liz Phair

#bad #becoming #being #ended #i