Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

JFK had to act before his fragile body betrayed him.

A saw by itself holds no value, but when coupled with your labor can clear forests.

Let your poem be kept nine years.

That man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

I can't not write, if I don't then I get really depressed.

You can't be halfhearted in a revolution. Values that serve well in a civil society don't work in a state of nature.

Taste ... is a matter of taste (Tad Allagash)

I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

Mind is locked in matter like the spirit Ariel in a cloven pine. Like Ariel, men struggle to escape the drag of the matter they inhabit, yet it is the spirit that they fear.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits