When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

It’s not about the content we are creating but how much content our customers are creating for us.

If there was no such thing as barrels I probably wouldn't even surf.

The majority of players are looking for reasons to fold. I am looking for reasons to play.

People of too much sentiment are like fountains, whose overflow keeps a disagreeable puddle about them.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

Did no one tell him that pain lives in this sand, dug in and watered with our blood?

Sakura: Never figured you for the artistic type. Sai: Looks can be decieving.

All action is prayer. All trees are desire-fulfilli ng. All water is the Ganga. All land is Varanasi. Love everything.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.