We have forged the type of bonds that only battle brings.

This is just the way life is – sometimes cruel, sometimes beautiful, all the time confusing and frightening and exhilarating – and we just have to deal with it. That’swhat freedom is.

Every book was a door

Anything exceptional gets crushed by common people with jealousy and ignorance and all their common evils.

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

I like to sing around the bonfire, in my car and in the shower.

Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

The reason that the World Trade Center got hit is because there are a lot of people living in abject poverty out there who don't have any hope for a better life.