Storytelling is the very soul of humankind made plain for all to experience.

Being poet is my choiceless choice.

Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

We're very good in America at talking about stuff, often stuff to buy. We tend to talk about our iPods. We tend to talk about cars or new fads.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

I am not responsible for the actions of Saakashvili and even for those of Gamsakhurdia.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

It takes a lot of money to make music and get it to people. It takes a lot of time to make a record sound good.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

At the end of a matter ask, "What will I learn from this to make me better?"

I'm never sure if I'll ever write another song, what the song will be about and if what initially sparked the beginning of a song might complete it.