There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.

If SANTA CLAUS came down the chimney in a f**king jogging suit, you wouldn't even know it was him.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.

As you get older, you accept that there are some tunnels that don't have any light in them, but you go down them anyway.

Everything that you do in your life that helps you sweat is good for you. Whenever you're sweating, you're adding to your potential to enjoy the day or enjoy the moment or enjoy your life.

I embrace the idea that I'm an entertainer.

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

I wish I did believe in God. It would be a great relief to think, 'God'll take care of it. God'll put gas in the car tomorrow'.

Being around people who are happy and people who are creative, that's what you do if you're lucky in your life.

We wish that we could take magic drugs, play around all day, read, and do nothing strenuous, and be the smartest, happiest people in the world. The truth is, it's all about sweat.

Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are.

I find greater companionship in inert figures, animals and Speechless artifacts, for I can enjoy their presence and there is no psychic drain.

I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.

Love and pregnancy and riding on a camel cannot be hid

September 11 was terrible, but if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

Art must be a slow and normal evolution.

When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.