Hatred is unattractive, but it's also irresistible. If men were honest with themselves, they'd admit it's a stronger passion than lust.

I would prefer to believe that things possess the power of recall, of recollection. That things are memoirs of the existences that once were theirs, if only we knew how to read them.

To ennoble is to diminish by robbing people of their complexity, their completeness, of their humanity, which is always clouded by what gets stirred up at the bottom.

I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.

Many people want money but do not love to work.

Sometimes the stage terrifies me, ” I confessed. “But being here alone like this, it’s freeing.”Solitude can be freeing, ” he said.

It's my job to look presentable but that doesn't mean I have to make a fashion statement everytime I walk out the house.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Your self image is so powerful it unwittingly becomes your destiny.

We cannot use our thoughts and feelings as a standard: only God’s Word is the test.

In a flat choice between smoke and jobs, we're for jobs... But just keep me out of trouble on environmental issues.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

I keep going back to love when I write songs because I can't figure it out.