Museums and bookstores should feel, I think, like vacant lots - places where the demands on us are our own demands, where the spirit can find exercise in unsupervised play.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid.

Temporary failure will not prevent you from achieving lasting success.

He was too perplexed to please the conventional and too reverent. to please the infidels.

When you shine a bright light, a secret loses all its power.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

It's always nice when people appreciate your work because it means you've affected them, which is great. And so that feels good.

What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.

There's a difference between silence meaning agreement and being silenced.

But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.