[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

It is one of the paradoxes of journalism: The more servile a reporter is toward his sources, the more authoritative he can appear in print.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.

Just keep following your damn dreams, it just costs a lot of damn money. I'm broke, but I have a dream.

Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape.

Life doesn't move in straight lines, and neither does a good conversation.

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey!

Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.