Blasphemy is the crime of not taking someone's beliefs as seriously as they do.

The hardest mistakes to learn from are those that lack consequence.

The one thing in me more powerful than a general misanthropy is an inescapable compassion for individuals.

Good or bad, positive or negative, there is no comment more insulting to a poet than one displaying that you have not properly read and considered the things they wrote.

If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.

In every life story, including our own, decisions are made in haste that determine the course of eternity.

We're one of the only animals in the world that don't really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Stylists aren't for me. I tried to use one when I first started working in the US, but I didn't click with anyone.

Individualism? Narcissism? Of course. It is my strongest tendency, the only intentional constancy [fidelity] I am capable of.... Besides, I am lying; I scatter myself too much for that.

Sometimes we think we dislike flattery, but it is only the way it is done that we dislike.

It's my intention to make something stand outside the realm of album art, but it also feels comfortable to me to be in it. It's tricky and definitely a requires striking a delicate balance.

I'm out there having as good a time as I did in the backyard since I was five-years-old.

The camera gives you some control.

Sir, I would trust you with my heart. Moreover, we have left our bodies in the banqueting hall. Those on the turf are the shadows of our souls.