I can read and arrange, but I can't write.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Did he smile his work to see? Did he who made the Lamb make thee?

we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.

Look upon the world with loving eyes and the reflection everyone sees will contain love.

We could never go back to how things were on the day before 9/11, but maybe I could go back to who I was.

Being fully in the present, you experience the timeless. In the timeless, you find your true self.

A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.

My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.

You meet new people. We just spent two hours with people we didn't know before, just talking about the Badgers.

I'm not really interested in making money.

The life expectancy is much longer today than it was when Social Security was created.