Will Anderson
Will Anderson
Lead singer of the pop-rock group Parachute, the group known for songs like "She is Love."
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth5 May 1986
CitySacramento, CA
flourish history mormon
So many times in the history of Mormon polygamy, the outside world thought it had the movement on the ropes only to see it flourish anew.
blunders history
Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.
world wonder natural
The natural world is so adaptable...So adaptable you wonder what's natural.
cheer thinking jumping
I wanted to say something to cheer her up. I had a feeling that cheering her up might be a lot of work. I was thinking of how sometimes, trying to say the right thing to people, it’s like some kind of brain surgery, and you have to tweak exactly the right part of the lobe. Except with talking, it’s more like brain surgery with old, rusted skewers and things, maybe like those things you use to eat lobster, but brown. And you have to get exactly the right place, and you’re touching around in the brain but the patient, she keeps jumping and saying, “Ow.
findings security
We all flee in hope of finding some ground of security
dwarves house dumb
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
fighting choices-made decision
And I realize that the decision to be human is not one single instant, but is a thousand choices made very day. It is choices we make every second and requires constant vigilance. We have to fight to remain human.
activism interest consumption
We Americans are interested only in the consumption of our products. We have no interest in how they are produced, or what happens to them once we discard them, once we throw them away.
long lasts may
At long last, you may no longer distinguish what binds you from what is you.
spring rain hair
People talk about the beauty of the spring, but I can't see it. The trees are brown and bare, slimy with rain. Some are crawling with new purple hairs. And the buds are bulging like tumorous acne, and I can tell that something wet, and soft, and cold, and misshapen is about to be born. And I am turning into a vampire.
pain eye reality
...they told me of color, that it was an illusion of the eye, an event in the perceiver's mind, not in the object; they told me that color had no reality; indeed, they told me that color did not inhere in a physical body any more than pain was in a needle. And then they imprisoned me in darkness; and though there was no color there, I still was black, and they still were white; and for that, they bound and gagged me.
whispering
Whispering makes a narrow place narrower.
music-love bostonians used
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
teenager book writing
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?