The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

I'm going to do everything I can to keep from being mainstream.

The little girl expects no declaration of tenderness from her doll. She loves it, & that's all. It is thus that we should love.

I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.

If you're a positive person, you're an automatic motivator. You can get people to do things you don't think they're capable of.

We have to make you think it's an important seat - because you're in it.

Nothing is any particular way. It's your state of mind that creates reality.

Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people.

I am overwhelmed by the beautiful disorder of poetry, the eternal virginity of words.

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.