R- THE DON Quotes

I would never write in response to what I believe the public wanted or needed.

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick is to die in between.

The more things you own, the more those things own you.

Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

Life is my business; business is not my life.

The deciding differentiator in how you drive LOYALTY lies within your greatest asset....your people.

A healthy society is life-affirming. Homosexuality is the metaphysical negation of life. Incapable of reproduction (giving life), it can replenish its numbers only by seduction.

By and large, reporters and editors are devoutly secular and deeply distrustful of those who act on faith.

Concerning First Amendment fetishism - A federal subsidy for a photo of a crucifix suspended in a jar of urine is fine, but religious figures on stamps are offensive.

To suggest that conservatives have a monopoly on hate is an ideological mugging of reality.

No other group (traditional Christians) is so consistently maligned on prime-time television. These defamatory portrayals betray a deep-seated hostility.

Christians are the only group Hollywood can offend with impunity, the only creed it actually goes out of its way to insult... The tenets of Christianity are regularly held up to ridicule.

Let's pass more gun control laws and buy metal detectors for every public school in the land - anything but tell kids that life is sacred, because its Creator deems it so.

Bill Clinton says the middle-class folks in Topeka who contribute to The 700 Club or Focus on the Family are radicals whose beliefs pose a mortal danger to this nation!

The purpose of U.S. foreign policy is protecting the security of Americans, not crusading for goodness abroad.

Don't you just hate it when the war on terrorism interferes with political correctness and liberalism's equality fetish?

We may be unable to maintain even a semblance of order in our urban schools, which increasingly resemble happy hour in Beirut. But, hallelujah, we sure know how to protect kids from God.

To enter into the initiation of sound, of vibration and mindfulness, is to take a giant step toward consciously knowing the soul.

If the body can respond so decisively to music, it must in some sense be music.

They say that time heals a broken heart, but time has stood still since we've been apart.

The only thing I was any good at was music.

Scaramucci said he wants to narrow the gap between what he thinks of the president and what he sees as the press' view of Trump.

[Donald] Trump is still Trump, and that means he says things that politicians just don't say.

I talked to some of Donald Trump supporters and they, say, yeah, sometimes he makes me cringe, but I still like him, and I still think he's the right thing for America.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

You're driving with your eyes closed.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

We live a protracted adolescence. At some point you must leave the party.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

This year, notoriety got confused with fame, and the devil is down hearted because there is nothing left for him to claim.

Johnny can get down and Johnny can throw up, but Johnny can't read.

It was a pretty good year for predators.

What are these voices outside love's open door, make us throw off our contentment, and beg for something more?

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

O' beautiful, for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that we elected king.

I'm always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I've got pieces of paper all over my house.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Arm chair warriors often fail.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

I was flying back from Lubbock and I saw Jesus on the plane, or maybe it was Elvis. You know, they kind of look the same.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Time travel is a thing. It can be very dangerous, and it's also very - it's an expensive thing to do.

Both the writing and the visuals in that sense are very exploratory. It goes back to my rule for myself [in] making it.

It's naturally kind of humiliating and strange to have a microphone; when you're young you just make movies, you don't worry about all the peripheral stuff that comes with it.