Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes

It's all a compost heap. You just put down a layer of humus that helps other stuff grow. Your work will all be forgotten, but it will help stuff grow.

Waiting was sometimes the most proactive thing a person could do.

Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

I have no agenda - just to be loved. Somebody said to me, 'Whenever somebody says your name, a smile comes to their face.' That's a great accolade. I strive to keep it that way.

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame.

I would say aside from Moxie soda bottles and Masonic artifacts, there's nothing I really collect.

Everyone who wears glasses (onstage) eventually takes them off. It becomes part of the evolution. It was actually kind of a battle for me to keep my glasses.

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

We must endeavor to have God reign sovereignly in us, and then in others. The trouble with me is that I take more care to have Him reign in others than in myself.