Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

How you react to the issue, IS the issue.

Common courtesy dictates that we never drain the lifeblood of anyone to whom we've been formally introduced.

It is but sorrow to be wise when wisdom profits not.

Freedom was taken away from my family until we landed in America and it was given back to us.

I can act normally, and I can go out, but people around you don't act normally. If it was normal, I'd go out and have my dinner and nobody would be video-phoning me eating my dinner.

For me, everyone has many personas.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

I don't think there are any churches that have "Thou shalt not believe in climate change" written in their actual statement of faith.

I shoved on a dressing-gown, and flew downstairs like a mighty, rushing wind.

I don't have to have talent. I just need to have auto-tune and be allowed to have the hottest track in the game, and my swag.