Can poetry be a form of social change? I don't know the answer to that. I do think art can have a social impact even if it may be difficult to see the effects of that impact, to assess or measure it.

You don't get everything all at once. You wait.

It's clever but is it art?

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

Apathy is a spiritual numbness that creeps in and corrupts the good that God intends for our life and the good that He wants us to accomplish for Him and His kingdom.

It doesn't entirely make sense that if 51 senators are from one party, and they can stick together, they can do whatever they want. Especially in this age of blatant, shameless gerrymandering.

I always try to stay objective, and to remove myself from the process and look at the film again.

Do your homework all of your life.

Men ever follow willingly a daring leader: most willingly of all, in great emergencies.

Most of the women I saw on TV didn't seem like people I actually knew. They felt like ideas of what women are.

The British - who rarely start a fight, but always know how to finish it - have nothing to be ashamed of.