Some of us fought back with guns and assassinations. Others fought back with a little hot dog stand on the corner.

We will feel conviction about the things we create only if we keep discovering, within those creations, new reasons for wanting them to be that way.

You never open your mouth until you know what the shot is.

I'm going to fight for every citizen of every background from every stretch of America.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

Anyways, I am a nerd, bookworm, geek... whatever you want to call me. I'm the type of person that would rather sit down and read a good book than go out and party.

Fly Away changed my life. There are certain songs that do. When I won the Grammy, I was in Paris. I sort of forgot about it.

There's a reason they say,"Pride goeth before a fall.

You can't go out and adopt Democrat policies all the way or halfway to show that you're not what they think you are.

There's something sexy about a gut. Not a 400-pound beer gut, but a little paunch. I love that.

Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.