There's a good chance that you might be inspired by ideas that originate outside of yourself.

I like a good story and I also like staring at the sea-- do I have to choose between the two?

You might say that the universe plays the blues.

The online music magazine Pitchfork once wrote that I would collaborate with anyone for a bag of Doritos.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told.

The radio was shouting at you, pleading with you, and seducing you.

Powerpoint presentations are a kind of theater, a kind of augmented stand-up. Too often it's a boring and tedious genre, and audiences are subjected to the bad as well as the good.

Nan Gorman was born in Memphis, Tenn., on St. Patrick's Day. She moved to Hazard in 1929 when her father, James Hagan, a recent medical school graduate and aspiring surgeon, went to work there.

Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.

The language of poetry is not stuck in place. Nothing can own language. I think, however, the genre of poetry itself is very feminine and motherly.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.

It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.

I'm a little bit of a geek - I have to be the first person to get new things when they come out. I always want to buy and try new gadgets.

Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.

The night Makes everything grotesque. Is it because Night is the nature of man's interior world?