There is redemption in every song.

If your ideas are bigger than the town you're in, you've got to get out of there.

Trying to keep up appearances is a signal of decay on the inside. Beware shallow living—in yourself and in others. It is only in the depths that life can thrive.

Instead of narrowing our allegiances to only include our favored nation, let us sing an anthem to the marvelous human being.

Forgive my grief for one removed Thy creature whom I found so fair I trust he lives in Thee and there I find him worthier to be loved.

Talking about your feeling with someone who is willing to listen can be enormously consoling, especially if that person has experienced a death similar to the one you are grieving.

Man is the cruelest animal. At tragedies, bullfights, and crucifixions he has so far felt best on earth; and when he invented hell for himself, behold, that was his very heaven.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

Luckily almost no one buys music anymore, so selling music doesn't really affect any of my professional decisions.

The thing done avails, and not what is said about it.

While my cousins were gang-banging, I was trying to learn what the Internet was about.

I have a rule that I won't Google my own name.