I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

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.

What good is having an imagination if you don't use it?

We put our thoughts on the social media and think that it is the reality, without realising how far we are from the truth.

Being in a band is about making the band the priority.

My girls are very fashionable. They have a very good eye for marrying style and fashion.

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit.

I am very traditional, and I am the disciplinarian.

The key to digital effects is to do things that are visually accurate but done cheaply and approximated.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

Valor is superior to number.

You can eat an elephant if you do it one bite at a time.