Never trust a man who dresses too well or stays too clean. It ain't natural and whatever he's up to probably ain't legal.

Christmas makes me schmaltzy. I'm proud to be level-headed, even a little tough most of the time. But once a year I like to believe that peace on earth may be possible and calories don't count.

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

I stood there, watching her. The whole world was a dream, I realized. Everyone was acting in a bad soap opera. The whole world was one big FOX TV show.

There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.

We only begin to live life when we learn to accept it on its own terms.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

Nobody can survive alone, in this world. People have bonds, and sometimes those bonds are broken. And then, that person goes spinning off and connects with someone else.

The Occupy Wall Street protests at last suggest that America's wealth gap is once again becoming an organizing political principle in the country.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

We need to stop telling girls they can be anything they want when they grow up. Because it would have never occurred to them that they couldn't.