I could never be a country person, sitting around trees trying to write a song. I would rather be in the middle of society, whether it's growing or crumbling.

I love walking down the street and seeing faces and drama and happiness and sadness and dirt and cleanliness.

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

People are strange. We're all morticians. Hey, what's on TV?

The most important thing to a lot of people, is to belong to something that's hip or whatever. To be a part of something that's not society, just a clique.

When you become tired of fitting in, is when you truly become yourself

There's more to light than the opposite of dark.

Secrecy is the enemy of efficiency, but don't let anyone know it.

Never mind a world that can't see past brutality.

Sometimes you want to run away Sometimes you think you do But you never had a dream like this before And you don't want to ask for more Sometimes you leave a mark Before you know the score

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

Clear nights are sometimes the coldest.

Dangers were no more than odd imaginings, like ghost stories that children made up to frighten one another: things that couldn't possibly happen.

He felt like a brother of mine, but not at all like my actual brother. He seemed like someone I'd always know even if I never saw him again.

People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.

Marriage is no substitute for political experience.

We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

You have to believe there are kisses and laughs and risks worth taking.

We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.

Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms.

Fact is stranger than fiction.