My parents were in the studio when we cut 'Let Me Try' and every time I sang it they started crying, ... I finally had to ask them to leave because I couldn't sing it while they were crying.

Let thy power be a prayer.

Maybe we all have darkness inside of us and some of us are better at dealing with it than others.

I mean this: every time I come home, I feel like I'm coming back to the world, and when I leave Macomb it's like leaving the world.

Buthe had the kindest face in the world, with big, dark eyes and buzzed-cutbrown hair.

Pain is part of being alive and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever nor is it necessarily unbearable and we need to be taught that.

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

He passes, struck by the stare of truculent Wellington but in the convex mirror grin unstruck the bonham eyes and fatchuck cheekchops of Jollypoldy the rixdix doldy.

I wish the fire burned my leg hair off

I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.