If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.

Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.

Black is not sad... Black is poetic.

Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food.

Who knows if Shakespeare might not have thought less if he had read more?

Say that I starved; that I was lost and weary; That I was burned and blinded by the desert sun; Footsore, thirsty, sick with strange diseases; Lonely and wet and cold, but that I kept my dream!

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

It's up to the people. If they really want to keep it going, they'll keep it going... they'll appreciate the music.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

Above all, you have to love what you are doing. You cannot fake passion. If you love it you can fight through the rough times and enjoy the good times.