The problem with taxation is that authors can't write off whiskey as a business expense.

Nobody's innocent... but that doesn't reset the bar on guilt.

The pursuit of happiness seems worthwhile only because of the chase. You love it only if you don’t realize you’re never going to catch up.

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great.

When you open yourself up to people, you show them where to put the knife in.

There are bad people out there, Jimmy. I don’t know if you’ve seen them… they walk around like they’re lost. And they make people sick by hurting them. That’s why we stay inside.

Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).

Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

How to build a fire: stay true to your perspective! Then burn.

Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of every class, and in every part of the world

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy.

You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away?

I am sick of talking about What and Why I am doing. I have always believed that the WORK is the word. Action is seen less clearly through reason. There are no shortcuts to directness.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.

Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow.