I would have taken whatever hand I was dealt. Space was it.

That I learned even as a three year-old that I see this world that is really a mess and I learned to say, this is not me. I am not the one that is messed up. It is out there.

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense; it has particular ways of catching an environment.

I'm such a long-term investor, I've never really let go and celebrated what I did with the Hubble telescope.

There really isn't a time to pause and have a celebration. I feel so serious about the whole thing.

I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.

I came from an extraordinarily dysfunctional family, full of abuse and alcoholism. And eventually everyone within the family had committed suicide.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

I have a great relationship with animals, and with children. I get to their level. I try to see the way a child looks at the world, it's hugely different.

Getting out of the comfortable path, that's what exploration is all about.

Your thighs are appletrees. Your knees are a southern breeze.

Don’t just create

You can fall, but you can rise also.

Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.

As if I could stop loving you. As if I would want to give up the thing that makes me stronger than anything else ever has. Since the first time I saw you, I have belonged to you completely.

In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.

I can deal with your judgment, because I've always marched to the beat of my own drummer--ever since i cut my camp shirt into a halter top.

When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.

The media is the message and the messenger, and increasingly a powerful one.

What I try to push and promote is peace through the whole music industry.