Every day my anxiety is higher, every day the grief more mortal.Today more than yesterday terror exalts me…

We survive, in the confusionof a life reborn beyond reason.

Happiness does not come from having much, but from being content, even when you have little.

The landscape of any farm is the owner's portrait of himself.

The thing that we have going for us is that people are willing to sacrifice themselves.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

I guess he believes if a lie is big enough and repeated often enough, it will be believed.

I always feel like I'm forgetting things.

I'm not pessimistic. It is the world that is terrible. How can we be optimistic in the face of a planet where people live so badly, nature is being destroyed and the dominant empire is money?

I look at music now as just something to keep you relevant.

The song [The White Trash Song] was not a put down of [ my country cousins ], but a celebration. I wrote that early on, as a teenager.