Trouble is kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.

When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.

I pull from a place within me that has ultimate faith in the meaningfulness and beauty of human life.

Man in his effort to pray and receive guidance actually enhances his separation from who he really is and what he is reaching for. In time, you have all answers to all questions.

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

The persistence of erroneous beliefs exacerbates the widespread anachronistic failure to recognize the urgent problems that face humanity on this planet.

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice.

I want to change peoples' minds about music, I want to bring the really brutal experimental stuff to peoples' attention.

I'm trying to reestablish my career and do great work and give my kids the life they deserve.