It wasn't fair that my friends could stay at Captain Morgan's pirate ship party while I was drop-kicked into a basement with homeless people chanting the Serenity Prayer.

That is true strength. To want what you have, and not what someone else is holding.

I had two speeds, which often varied with my blood alcohol level: fine with whatever, and never, ever satisfied. Where was the balance between these two?

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

Moving a pile of bricks from one side of the room to the other requires strength. Time, discipline, patience.

The world of books is a heavenly paradise.

The purpose of life has eternal consequences

My early reviews were so bad that I decided I didn't want to read them again.

I am on the hunt for constructions. I come into a room and find them whitely merging in a corner.

Love songs are one of the great essences of life, the only thing thats lasting.

If you could lead through testing, the U.S. would lead the world in all education categories. When are people going to understand you don't fatten your lambs by weighing them?

We lost 14 straight. Then we had a game rained out and it felt so good we had a victory dinner.

He knockin' on the door, let the devil in.

I am very easy. I like to have my work out. I am not restrictive about any of that. It is the collectors that are possessive, not me, not me.

I am stuck in the dream of an album that sells well not because of marketing, but because people like the songs.