Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Shower the people you love with love.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

Western education remains a fetish of the colonial past.

On deathbed every single good, bad, ugly moment becomes special.

If you're going to walk into a scene on a stage, you've gotta know what room you just left and what just happened.

In the sea of words, the in print is foam, surf bubbles riding the top. And it's a dark sea, and deep, where divers need lights on their helmets and would perish at the lower depths.

If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

My fast is a matter between God and myself.

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.

In my own writing, I think of myself as a realist who exaggerates a little.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.