...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

Excellence is inconveniently difficult.

There is a reality that this day and age is the digital era. Anybody can find anything they want.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents.

I feel sick if I have to do something for the money. I can't breathe. I'm not proud of myself.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Your life is your own, your glory is your glory, but you will lose it if you keep it for yourself. Grasp it for the sake of others.

We're all brothers and sisters. It doesn't matter what language you speak or what color your skin is.

The only way you can beat the lawyers is to die with nothing.