In case nobody has told you, " she said, "this is the United States of America, where nobody has a right to rely on anybody else--where everybody learns to make his or her own way.

There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.

I found myself, lost inside the depths of my darkest days amazed to find the most of you watching me hoping i’d stay.

The head can travel a far piece while the body sits in one spot. It can traverse many decades, and many conversations can be had, even with the dead.

You challenge me to be a better person. And no one else does that, except maybe my mother.

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

You have Kim Jong Il, and you have his brother, Menta Lee Il.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.

I'm not sure if the next song I write is going to be about love or a song about a tree.