Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

Doesn't matter what you do, or how you do it, your neighbors are gonna talk about you ANYWAY.

Discipline is the result of an action, while refinement is a preparation of your calling.

Love built on beauty soon as beauty dies.

Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.

A bonus: You don't have to diet to direct.

With the tools of democracy, democracy was murdered and lawlessness made "legal." Raw power ruled, and its only real goal was to destroy all other powers besides itself.

If you can read and don't, you're dumb.

My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.

You cannot escape what you have to deal with inside yourself. It will never bring good things. It will only bring madness.

Performing is the easiest part of what I do, and songwriting is the hardest.

You get what you give, but also what you're willing to take. The night before, I'd offered up my hand. Now, if I held on, there was no telling what it was possible to recieve in return.