And I sing and sing of awful things The pleasure that my sadness brings.

My head's a carousel of pictures and The spinning never stops.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

I think there's so much about Rasta culture that's interesting. Just the idea of preaching one-ness, that we're all in this together.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

It's not a movie, no private screening This method acting, well, I call that living

I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories

I like to feel the burn of the audience's eyes when I'm whispering all my darkest secrets into the microphone.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

You should never be embarrassed by your trouble with living, because it's the ones with the sorest throats who have done the most singing.

A clean house is a sad house.

Unfortunately, unapproachable leaders create a tense environment that may prevent their people from bringing their best strengths and talents or challenges and solutions forward.

We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.

I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

When mundane, lowly activities are at stake, too much insight is detrimental — far-sightedness errs in immediate concerns.

To love and live beloved is the soul's paradise.

I have tried being surreal, but my frogs hop right back into their realistic ponds.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.