I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

May your happiest days of the past be your saddest days of your future.

I don't believe in lynching, I just don't support legal action being taken against the KKK

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

Be good and honest to your fellow man and try to do something good for somebody.

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

I've realized that most of my best ideas have followed a good night's sleep.

There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.