Theodore Roethke was a poet I was raised with so he has a lot of sentimental value for me.

If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

Don't follow a trend. Follow your heart.

She's intense and passionate, so she's perfect.

When I perform, I like to immerse myself in the music, and I just try to get off on the diversity of music.

When Nirvana hit it big, it was overwhelming because we were part of the counterculture. Nirvana didn't go to the mainstream - the mainstream came to Nirvana.

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

No band is special, no player royalty.

But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing.

We remember Kurt Cobain for what he was: Caring, generous, and sweet. Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.

But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen.

In order that love be fully satisfied, It is necessary that It lower Itself and that It lower Itself to nothingness and transform this nothingness into fire.

Some wo/men are so possessive … you end up missing missing them.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

So to me, Texas Hold 'em puts me to sleep. At least when you play stud, you can be funny as you deal. Somebody some day is going to come up with a Stud show that's going to work.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

I wrote 'Hereafter' quickly and without mapping it out too much or being too schematic. As an exercise, I think that was incredibly important.

It's about falling down and getting back up.