For me music is totally freeing, and it's its' own language too. You follow it, in a way.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.

Sacred gifts: life, nature, good health, strength, joy, prosperity of soul, children, family, friends….!

Introversion at least if extreme is a sign of mental and spiritual immaturity.

Everyone must accept that we will age and age is not always flattering.

You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

The truly just is he who feels half guilty of your misdeeds.

The science is in: either we go cold turkey on our coal, oil, and gas addictions, or we risk raising the planet's temperature to a level incompatible with the continued existence of civilization.

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.