I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

People always want reasons for things ... but sometimes there are no reasons.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

Don't let your silly dreams fall in between the crack of the bed and the wall.

Some things cannot be explained. This is part of the magic of life. There cannot be a word or an idea or a definition attached to everything.

I think that live music is something that the Internet can never kill.

Reading is one of the greatest forms of magic available to us on the planet.

Fashion is one of the most beautiful forms of art we have. It's a form of art that every person gets to possess and create for themselves.

I am very blessed to have a great group of long-term friends and a huge family that has been very loving and supportive. I try to stay connected to that and contribute as much as I can.

It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

Death is contagious

Don't expect the unexpected. Let the unexpected expect you.

If a poem is not memorable, there's probably something wrong. One of the problems of free verse is that much of the free verse poetry is not memorable.

When those who have the opportunity to speak to those politicians they must do so and if one doesn't have that opportunity to speak directly, they can still speak indirectly and it can be heard.

Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

The democratic concept of man is false, because it is Christian. The democratic concept holds that . . . each man is a sovereign being. This is the illusion, dream, and postulate of Christianity.

Geese are white, crows are black. No argument will change this.

It is a shame when nonsense can substitute for fact with impunity.

Apart from the desire to produce beautiful things, the leading passion of my life has been and is hatred of modern civilization.