It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

I am a tourist of the emotions, visiting only the most well-worn spots. It is romantic, that is, a distortion, to imagine whole lives from the barest observation.

I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony.

The push and pull of representing your world responsibly and your artistic license is a tricky balance.

When we lack integrity, we use power to control. When we lead with integrity, we use power to bless.

I thought I was having an existential crisis, but it was nothing. Please don't tailgate: body in trunk.

For those people who want to keep following trends, you do that and when the trend goes away so will you.

I kind of go for the MGM version of every musical style.

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

I've always been interested in how we survive and how resourceful we are as Americans.