#un

Growing up in Kentucky, I used to hang out with four running buddies as a kid - 6, 10, and 11 years old. Two of them would later come out, and so 50 percent of my friends as a kid were gay. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#come #four #friends #gay #growing

I noticed a lot of guitar players neglected the rhythm part of rhythm guitar and decided I would try to focus in that. As my skill and knowledge of the instrument grew, I found lead started to come naturally. Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer. Ha ha! ↗

— Hal Sparks

#decided #drummer #focus #found #frustrated

I'm a futurist. Technology is our way out of almost every problem we have. Technology can create a new sense of community. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#community #create #every #i #new

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#earthquakes #had #heard #how #i

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#commitment #community #days #equal #equal rights

The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#cartoons #deeper #dust #exist #grunge

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me. ↗

— Hal Sparks

#anyone #band #being #doing #else

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#men #promise #young #young men

Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#close #door #drafts #either #ever

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#books #done #every #fifteen #hundred