If the point of good art is to be somewhat subtle then it's not going to catch everyone.

If you make everything really on the nose so everyone knows exactly what you're talking about, it's often not as strong.

Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.

I don't believe in the myth of the "self made man". Nobody gets through alone.

I used to be so young, how did I get so old?

You can't just look at the side of something that you want to see. You have to look at the whole round object and understand that there are parts of it that you don't like.

I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

I think the future and the past are equally hypothetical.

Sometimes I just don't have time to wait for the muse to come, so I've developed things to force the muse to come back.

I'm influenced in a million different ways by a million songs that I've heard and digested.

The idea that things intrinsically were just better is so stupid to me because they never were. It's all relative.

If one does secret acts, what should one do to correct them? He should expose the acts and thereby he will no longer fear anyone.

I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

Congratulations to the NBA champion Boston Celtics - they beat the Los Angeles Lakers by 39 points. Or as Hillary Clinton would say, "Too close to call.

It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?

All things change, creeds and philosophies and outward systems - but God remains.

You gotta keep ur head up even when the road is hard never give up.

I don't want to run for governor, but I don't think anyone should put public service out of the question because that's not what a good citizen does.