Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

That is death - shifting from "is" to "was.

Kindle yourself in your spirit.

Out of the scabbard of the night By God's hand drawn Flashes his shining sword of light And lo the dawn!

I have no philosophy, my favourite thing is sitting in the studio.

The beginning of suffering is often a refusal to look at the situation as it really is.

I was set free because the negotiations were successful, because there were people lobbying for my freedom, and because hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Rome for my freedom.

I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation. And my conversation with God is very open-ended. I pray for humility, honestly, because it's very easy to be caught up in this world.

The ugly can achieve an absoluteness beyond the reach of beauty.

Victory usually goes to those green enough to underestimate the monumental hurdles they are facing.

I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.