I suppose the danger when you have a job that involves writing is you can be a bit isolated.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way.

...Loretta threatened to beat him to death with a wooden spoon...

You have to know who to keep near you and those you should be far away from.

Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory.

Autism is just the surface. What is inside each of us is what matters, autistic or not.

I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.

I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

Losing my virginity was a career move.

I consider myself a religious person. God is something very personal with me and I don't flaunt religion in conversation with others.

I never starved myself.