Every time your work is read, you die several deaths for every word, and poetry is like being flayed alive.

The truth is, no matter what your lifestyle or occupation, nothing can really stop you when you're allowing yourself to be exactly who you want to be.

I just found out that I have more allies than America!

In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.

It's an honor to win a Grammy, of course.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

A life of rest and peace in God is good; a life of pain lived in patience is still better; but to have peace in a life of pain is best of all.

We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make... that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I'm never gonna die, never heard of death, energy can never be destroyed only the flesh.

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.