[My] hunger and thirst was, and still remains: How do I get people who hate poetry to love me?

I would have to say that I’m haunted. I’m haunted by everything that drives me. I want to do great work. I need to do great work. I won’t be satisfied unless I do great work.

Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.

No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.

The pen isn’t really the weapon - the work ethic is the weapon.

Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life.

[I've] learned how to pull the mic away and attack the poetry with my body.

Only move forward with creating a product that will be "above the bar.

There should be a rule against your own inner monologue throwing around that much sarcasm.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

Enter freely and of your own free will!

We drank a toast to innocence, we drank a toast to now. And tried to reach beyond the emptiness, but neither one knew how.

We're not the kind of band who writes an order abundance of songs and picks from them, we usually write for the album.

I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.

It is an emotion that makes us act as if for the good of the group; an emotion that brings pleasure, pride, or even thrills from coordinated group activity.

One year of the world’s military spending equals 700 years of the U.N. budget and equals 2,928 years of the U.N. budget allocated for women.