A writer is simply one who writes words, Even if just 1 person reads it your work, or a 100, or 1million or 100, 000 You are a writer.

All we can do is write, but its up to the reader to decide if we wrote masterpieces or empty silliness, and there is nothing you can do till another reader says different.

Don't let society's defined genre hold you down, be a free spirit and just write, let society be the one to decide where each piece fits in.

Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

But it's far too late for us; ring, hair, letters, photographs - all traces of our love will be scattered then, like an anagram.

Karate has helped me lots, otherwise I might have got lost in substance abuse or something like the things a lot of other people do.

Resistance, whether to one's appetites or to the ways of the world, is a chief factor in the shaping of character.

If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task.

To me success would be to be able to do your very best in everything you do.

We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

Is God a man or a woman? God could be an armadillo. I have no idea.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.