I've always had an active imagination.

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.

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

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.

The present is what is happening when you strip away all the resentments of your past and all the worries you have about your future.

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

We cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot.

If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say.

It just happens to be that people like to associate poetry and rap music. I think that idea is kind of corny.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself.

In order to win, you must expect to win.

I'd want the human voice expressing grievances, or delight, or whatever it might be. But something real