I'm not overly analytical, and I don't set out to make something particularly.

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.

I wear clothes that most people in the Midwest would probably deem inappropriate at my age. And I rock a bikini all summer long. I know that it's not normal, but I just don't care. I live once.

I'd love to play Puck in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.'

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

I have spoken of a thousand points of light, of all the community organizations that are spread like stars throughout the Nation, doing good.

The most conventional statements are both true and welcome.

You know what they say, dress your best when you go to bed because you don't know who you'll see in your dreams.

Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.

Perhaps I'll get used to this bizarre place called Hollywood, but I doubt it.

A big sister who cries over being human over you. A gravelly voiced kid who's friends left him over you. And a pink-haired girl who keeps your picture in her wallet.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.