God let it be known that it is better to give than to receive, but a lot of people failed to get the message.

I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.

And maybe that's all a ghost is, in the end. Regret, grown legs, gone walking.

Touring definitely helps sell albums. Things have changed. I've noticed now more than ever when you market an album, get radio play/video play etc. it helps sell albums but it helps get more shows.

The fictional treatment of biographical material - a treatment that for me is essential - is full of traps.

Enthusiasm signifies 'God in us.'

The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion.

Tokyo is like the New York of Asia. Although the people there are all basically from Japan, they celebrate what they like about various cultures.

I think my acceleration is very good. That's the key for me.