Courage is a quietness not martial music made Born of facing up to life even when afraid.

I wanted to kill her and make her eat her fringe. And her knickers.

The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh.

Reasonable regulations regarding the ownership of weapons are appropriate.

We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.

Women hold up half the sky.

If you believe in the Bible, you've got to do business with it and not just screen it out.

I don't have to do things just to please people. It's okay to do what I love because what I love, my fans love. And they're really the only ones that should matter.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

Racism is ignorant. And it's stupid. And it's old. And it's played out. So beat it already with that, you know what I mean? 'Let's all get along' - I'm so tired of that damn sentence, but it's true.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.