Good acting is about reacting, not tryingto express something, but reacting to a situation as the character.I don't like acting acting.

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.

A man who wields a pen has to be accountable to society.

So these three things remain: faith, hope, and love. But the best one of these is love." I Corinthians 13:13

Remember, we who fell like stars from Heaven still shine bright in our own court.

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

England did nothing in that World Cup, so why were they bringing books out? 'We got beat in the quarter-finals. I played like s**t. Here's my book.'

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.

I never feel I'm standing on solid ground, and I do write with a certain kind of trembling fear.

I like to be around things that I find inspiring.