My musical style has changed dramatically from my first album until now. That's the real developmental shift. But my clothing has pretty much stayed the same. The important thing is to be real.

The theater used to be a place where you look like a human being. Now people look like they just got out of bed.

When clothes wear you, it's pretty evident. You've got to wear the clothes, not the other way around.

Now I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize.

If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his gate.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

The roots of the deepest love die in the heart, if not tenderly cherished.

We are willing to form an army like every independent country though we are still under occupation.

You cannot explain me with "isms." They are very bad for an artist. What one must believe in is color.

Paradise is not somewhere else... it is within you. And it is not in some other time, after death... It is in you right now.

Writing is the only thing in my life that doesn't get easier. It just doesn't.