Lent Quotes

Godsmack holds the record for Billboard`s longest running Top 10 single, "Whatever"—33 weeks. Godsmack borrowed $2500 from a friend to record their first CD. "Greed" was written in response to the same friend. "(`Greed`) is about this kid who was a tight friend of ours, who lent us the money to record our indie version of Godsmack and didn`t want any money back. But in return we paid him back, and then another 10 grand on top of that as a thanks! Then he tried to sue, saying he owned 10 percent of us. He put me through a year of hell negotiating with lawyers," explained Sully. Sully Erna is a practicing Witch of the Celtic Religion (WICCA) under Salem Witch Laurie Cabot. The Earth-respecting religion is integrated in many of Godsmack`s songs and Sully`s daily life. "It`s been my salvation. A lot of people are confused about witchcraft, it`s simply about worshipping the power of the earth, and that`s it! It`s a positive religion that has helped me through a lot of bad times." Godsmack recorded Awake in a "smelly-@$$ed dump warehouse in the middle of crack-ville Massachusetts." "There was a boxing gym downstairs, if we were hungry, we`d run out and get a crappy fast-food cheeseburger. We didn`t want to be surrounded in luxury, we wanted to keep the edge on," remembers Sully.

At one time I smoked, but in 1959 I couldn`t think of anything else to give up for Lent so I stopped-and I haven`t had a cigarette since.

Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

I came here in a pair of flip-flops and shorts, and my son`s track coach lent me a pair of boots and a boat,

Don`t make use of another`s mouth unless it has been lent to you.

Those have a short Lent, who owe money to be paid at Easter.